Officials are expecting hundreds to enroll in the Bangsamoro government’s new online livelihood education program for those who lost jobs, or whose productivity got marginalized by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former mayor Aniceto Lopez Jr. of Maasim, Sarangani in connection with the illegal collection of fees from fisherfolk in 2005.

March 19 is a special non-working holiday in La Trinidad, Benguet.

Twenty-three people were injured in an accident along the Koronadal-General Santos Highway in Barangay Crossing Rubber in Tupi town on Thursday.

Residents of Dagupan City in Pangasinan, including court employees, judges and prosecutors, are up in arms over a dump along the shore on Tondaligan beach in Barangay Bonuan Gueset.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government has admonished personnel of the Calabarzon police who held the corpses of four of the nine activists killed in law enforcement operations on Sunday.

The state weather bureau yesterday warned residents in the eastern section of the country of more rains due to a low-pressure area off Mindanao.

Mayor Marcelino Teodoro yesterday lamented the national government’s slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines after Marikina recorded an increase in COVID-19 cases.

Applicants seeking to be the 27th head of the Supreme Court were interviewed yesterday by members of the Judicial and Bar Council , a few weeks before the early retirement of Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta.

The Philippine National Police yesterday started isolating police officers and civilian employees who had close contact with PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas, who tested positive for COVID-19.