Dagupan City mayor vows P4-M funding for campus journalism

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez has pledged PHP4-million funding next year for the rigid training and activities of campus journalists in the city in a bid to fight fake…

Dagupan under state of calamity due to flooding

DAGUPAN CITY — The City Council placed Dagupan under a state of calamity in a resolution issued Saturday due to continuous rains and flooding caused by the storm-enhanced southwest monsoon.…

HLURB finally approves Dagupan’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez announced Thursday the final approval on May 3 of Dagupan’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and its accompanying zoning plan by the national board…

Dagupan now breaking into league of top 10 cities in PHL

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez revealed that Dagupan is now one of the leading and celebrated stars among cities in the Philippines that are now seeking to break into…

Dagupan mayor orders study of sale of private road to bus company

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez has ordered the city legal office to study whether the city can initiate the return of an interior road donated many years ago to…

Dagupan posts PHP120M savings last year

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez revealed Tuesday the city government registered PHP120 million savings last year, the biggest ever realized by the local government for the past three years…

Dagupan exec: City government not giving new extension to beach shed owners

DAGUPAN CITY — Enough is enough. This was pointed out by City Administrator Farah Decano when the Dagupan city government started tearing down on Tuesday some 100 or so beach…

Dagupan to put up four more traffic lights

DAGUPAN CITY — Even if motorists and pedestrians are still adjusting to the four already functioning traffic lights here, Mayor Belen Fernandez announced that four more traffic lights are again…

Dagupan police vows to protect gains in war on drugs

DAGUPAN CITY — Despite the holidays, the police in Dagupan have not relaxed their guard a bit against illegal drugs as they vowed to protect the gains that they had…

Mayor vows to put end to New Year’s day ‘tradition’ in Dagupan village

DAGUPAN CITY — Residents of Dagupan hailed the pledge of Mayor Belen Fernandez to stop a noon-day New Year tradition in Barangay Pogo Grande here of exploding simultaneously all firecrackers…

Dagupan now almost 100% drug-free

DAGUPAN CITY — The Dagupan police announced that at least five more villages are set to be declared drug-free here in the next few days, a move that could raise…

Rapid multiplication of mussels alarms fisherfolk in Dagupan

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez revealed that the teeming of a shellfish called mussels in the rivers of Dagupan City is not all the time a boon but more…

Mayor: Simple lanterns in streets of Dagupan have poignant story to tell

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez told her constituents that if they see simple and unlighted lanterns hanging in every lamp post here, they should bear in mind that each…

7 illegal fish pens up for demolition in Dagupan anew

DAGUPAN CITY — Seven illegal fish pens in the water of Dagupan city earlier claimed by their owners as sitting on titled properties but were proven not, are due for…

Dagupan mayor affirms October 10 deadline for illegal fish pens

DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Belen Fernandez affirmed that the October 30 deadline for all the illegal fish pens in the waters of Dagupan City to go stands even as she…