SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – A flight instructor and a student pilot were injured when a Cessna 172 training aircraft with tail number RP-C6923 crashed in the sea of Barangay Canaoay here on Tuesday morning, May 21. A CESSNA plane turns upside down after it crashed in San Fernando City, La...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – Police arrested the seventh most wanted person in the Ilocos region on Monday, May 13. The suspect, a 43-year-old married construction worker from Barangay Santa Barbara, Agoo, La Union, was caught in Barangay Macalva, Agoo on a warrant of arrest for qualified rape...
Rizal Monument Lighting 2024 The Rizal Monument and the Musical Dancing Fountain in Rizal Park lit up on May 5, 2024, in the blue and yellow colors of the European Union flag for the celebration of the founding of the European Union. European Union Ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Luc Véron said...
BURGOS, La Union – Mayor Delfin Comedis Jr. here has offered a P100,000 reward for information on the mastermind and gunman in the murder of barangay kagawad Celso Apilado. Comedis mourned the death of Apilado. He described Apilado as a good person and a performing barangay official. Comedis...
President Marcos has pitched his administration's $161-billion infrastructure development program in inviting European businesses and investors to the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) During the 2024 European-Philippines Business Dialogue and...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – Police arrested the fourth wanted person in the Ilocos region or Region 1 in Rosario, La Union last May 2. Police Brig. Gen. Lou F. Evangelista, PRO-1 director, said the 21-year-old male suspect was a resident of Barangay 55-A, Barit-Pandan, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte. The...
Aboitiz-led Union Bank of the Philippines has set the terms and timetable for its P10- billion stock rights offering with the offer price set at a discounted P30.57 per share. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange the bank said the offer price was determined based on the volume-weighted...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – A 40-year-old man drowned while swimming at the Amburayan River in Barangay Maria Cristina East, Bangar, La Union on Tuesday, April 30. Police identified the victim as Dione Lacanlale, a resident of Barangay Bangaoilan West, Bangar. Police said the victim, who...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Four houses were destroyed in a fire in Purok 3, Barangay San Francisco, this city, on Tuesday, April 30. Fire Chief Insp. Jun Eland Wanawan, city fire marshal, said four families were displaced but nobody was hurt. Wanawan said the fire started at 10 a.m....
The European Union (EU) and the Philippines have concluded their joint maritime activity in the waters off Palawan, which enhanced interoperability among Philippine agencies in countering maritime threats. EU's CRIMARIO project supported the Philippine National Maritime Center for the...
Union Bank of the Philippines, a member of the Aboitiz Group, reported a 41 drop in net income to P2 billion for the first quarter of 2024 from the P3.4 billion earned in the same period last year due to costs related to the integration of Citi’s consumer business. UnionBank Chief Financial...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has denounced the reported confiscation of the personal belongings of a photojournalist while he was covering a land dispute in Silang, Cavite last April 20. Citing a report from the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, the CHR said that...