COTABATO CITY (30 Mar 2018) - Lanao del Sur officials have urged Malacanang to conduct an investigation on the move of Iligan City leaders to evict evacuees from Marawi City now occupying houses in the Bayanihan Village there.
ILIGAN CITY (27 Mar 2018) - The city council here has scheduled a conference with stakeholders before demolishing the structures with "extensions" in the GK Bayanihan Village, in Barangay Sta. Elena -- a housing resettlement for 'Sendong' survivors.
BORACAY ISLAND, Aklan (27 Mar 2018) - Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu expressed a firm stance on the 6-month closure of Boracay to tourists as recommended by the inter-agency group despite continued objections from local stakeholders.
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan (27 Mar 2018) - Nine recipients of the controversial Dengvaxia anti-dengue vaccine in Palawan have been placed under strict and close monitoring by the Department of Health's (DOH) office in Mimaropa, ensuring that they would get medical assistance when needed.
ILIGAN CITY - City Hall would start padlocking houses at a resettlement site for survivors of the 2011 storm "Sendong" in Barangay Santa Elena that is being used by other people.
DAVAO City (23 Mar 2018) - President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday directed policemen to arrest drivers and operators of colorum public utility vehicles nationwide following Tuesday's bus crash in Occidental Mindoro that killed 19 people and injured 21 others.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines - Faith in God, helped Fr. Chito Suganob survived during his 116-day ordeal in the hands of the Maute-ISIS.
ILIGAN City (22 Mar 2018) - The local government here warned Typhoon 'Sendong' beneficiaries of a government relocation project who reportedly sold their units that the full force of the law will be used and their houses confiscated from them if reports are proven true.
PUERTO Princesa City (17 Mar) - Water pollution in Coron Bay, Palawan, is "so serious and over the limit" that it is unsafe for swimming, warned an official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Mimaropa on Saturday afternoon, March 17, 2018.
ILIGAN CITY (16 Mar 2018) - Officers and employees of Legaspi Oil may be responsible for the disappearance of P40 to P60 million from the Coconut Industry Investment Fund-Oil Mills Group (CIIF-OMG), an executive of CIIF-OMG has claimed.
ILIGAN City (15 Mar 2018) - A morning fire in Zones 9 and 11 in Barangay Bag-ong Silang here has left some ten families homeless, Thursday.
MANILA - Following public consultations and series of interagency meetings among the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), and the Department of Tourism (DOT), a decision has been made to recommend the total closure of Boracay.
STA. ANA, Cagayan Province - President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, 14 March 2018, witnessed the public destruction of smuggled luxury vehicles worth Php 27.2-million in Port Irene, the second batch of illegally shipped vehicles to be destroyed under his administration.
ILIGAN CITY (14 Mar 2018) - Police authorities arrested a suspected marijuana pusher during a buy-bust operation Tuesday evening in Barangay Pala-o this city.
Senior Inspector Jasper Ian Pasco, Station 5 chief of Iligan City's Police Office, on Wednesday identified the suspect as Sebastien Zeus Redilla, 25, single, and a resident of the said barangay.
During the buy-bust, suspect Redilla allegedly handed a medium-sized plastic packet containing dried marijuana leaves to a poseur-buyer.
When frisked after the transaction, police agents recovered the marked money from his possession, Chief Pasco narrated.
A further search of his house yielded more plastic packets containing dried marijuana leaves, Pasco added.
He said suspect Redilla was a newly identified drug personality in the area.
The suspect is now being temporarily detained at the holding cell of Station 5 while charges for violation of Republic Act No. 9165 is being prepared against him. [Divina Suson, Inquirerdotnet]
NORZAGARAY, Bulacan (14 Mar 2018) - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on early Wednesday morning, 14 March 2018, visited the wake of SPO1 Ronald B. Legaspi in Norzagaray, Bulacan.
TAGUIG City - The six-kilometer stretch of the Laguna Lake Expressway from ML Quezon Avenue to Napindan Bridge in Taguig City, south of Metro Manila, is now open to the public.
MANILA - Two hundred overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait are scheduled to arrive in Manila on Monday evening.
METRO Manila - The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed a tax evasion case against Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) on Thursday.
ILIGAN City - The PNP Counter Intelligence Task Force nabbed the Iligan City highway patrol group chief and three others in an entrapment operation conducted here Wednesday, March 7, 2018, for alleged extortion in Iligan City.
PADRE Faura, Manila - Solicitor General Jose Calida said Sereno is not qualified to hold the position of Chief Justice due to her alleged failure to fully reveal her wealth, according to the quo warranto petition he filed before the Supreme Court.
MANILA - A health advocacy group Friday called on the government to ensure that all tobacco packs churned out by local and imported manufacturers in the Philippines to bear the new graphic health warnings (GHWs) starting March 3.
ILIGAN City - The city fire marshall chief on Thursday declared March as fire prevention month, ironically reporting three fire incidents in a row that burned down 27 houses in a residential area, a commercial block, and a school.
DAVAO City (1 Mar 2018) - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa led Thursday the opening of the three-day National Special Weapon and Tactics (SWAT) Challenge at the Team Davao Inc. Pistol and Rifle Range in Davao City on March 1, 2018.
Senior Inspector Jasper Ian Pasco, Station 5 chief of Iligan City's Police Office, on Wednesday identified the suspect as Sebastien Zeus Redilla, 25, single, and a resident of the said barangay.
A further search of his house yielded more plastic packets containing dried marijuana leaves, Pasco added.
