Thirty-five motorist assistance stations will be set up on major, secondary, and tertiary roads in the Ilocos region starting Holy Wednesday to assist Holy Week travelers. These teams will be deployed from 8 a.m. April 16 to 5 p.m. April 19. Espher Tinaza, public information officer of the...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The Police Regional Office-1 deployed 5,000 police personnel and force multipliers in the Ilocos region to secure three major events – Holy Week, summer vacation, and the mid-term elections. Police Brig. Gen. Lou F. Evangelista, PRO-1 chief, said they...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The police chief of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte and three of his colleagues were relieved from their posts after a video of a lawman hurting a complainant at the police station over the weekend went viral online. OBAR Ilocos Norte police chief Police Col. Frederick...
CAMP FLORENDO, City of San Fernando, La Union – Police Brig. Gen. Lou Evangelista, Police Regional Office-1 (Ilocos) chief, has ordered an immediate investigation on the viral video of police officers from the Pasuquin Municipal Police Station in Ilocos Norte who allegedly engaged in acts of...
The Sandiganbayan has ordered the admission of the pieces of evidence presented by former Narvacan, Ilocos Sur mayor Zuriel S. Zaragoza and his father, Edgardo Zaragoza in their cases for graft and malversation of public funds. But the anti-graft court said that they still have to prove the...
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – The 2025 Tobacco Festival opened here on Friday, March 21. MAYOR Singson (FB) Candon City Mayor Eric D. Singson said activities in the week-long event that ends March 28 started with the culmination of the Women’s Month celebration at the Candon City Arena. “The...
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – The Ilocos Norte and Sur Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Offices are on heightened alert as a series of earthquakes rattled the two provinces in the past days. EPICENTER of the magnitude-4.4 earthquake in Ilocos Sur on Friday morning, March 14....
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – The Police Regional Office-1 provided security to the Department of the Interior and Local Government to ensure the orderly implementation of the suspension order against Urdaneta City, Pangasinan Mayor Julio Parayno III and Vice Mayor Jimmy Parayno on Friday morning,...
CAMP PRESIDENT QUIRINO, Ilocos Sur – An Overseas Filipino Worker was gunned down in Sitio Nagtupacan, Barangay Pudoc, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur, on Friday morning, March 14. Police identified the victim as Nerio Clifford Richonda Reynante, a resident of Barangay Pudoc. Investigation said the...
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – Three construction workers were buried alive while excavating a relocation site for the sewerage system of a convention center here on Wednesday afternoon, March 12. Police identified the fatalities as Christian Mark Velasco, 41, of Quezon, Isabela,...
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – Three successive earthquakes rocked this province on Sunday morning, March 9. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said no damage was recorded from these tremors. The first earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 was felt at 8:18 a.m. Its epicenter...
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – The Department of Public Works and Highways recently completed the 2.2-kilometer, P313.21-million Bangui Bypass Road Project in Bangui, Ilocos Norte. DPWH-Region 1 Director Ronnel Tan said the four-lane road is expected to shorten travel time between Barangay Bacsil and...
