The Jesuit Residence in Quezon City was placed on lockdown after it was learned that a priest who died Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19.

Joint security forces seized and destroyed two plantations with fully grown marijuana worth P21 million during a raid Friday in a village of Kalingalang Caluang town, Sulu, officials said.

The director of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in this city said there was no jumping of the vaccination line when three priests were inoculated against COVID-19.

The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal has upheld the victory of Leyte second district Rep. Lolita Javier in the 2016 elections.

The mayor of Dolores town in Abra tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in the Philippine National Police increased by 294 percent this month.

The military launched air and ground assaults against members of the Islamic State-linked Dawla Islamiyah in Ampatuan, Maguindanao on Thursday, leaving four militants dead and several others wounded.

A court in this city has ordered the police in the Cordilleras to stop red-tagging youth activists and their organizations.

The Bureau of Immigration yesterday reiterated its warning for the public to beware of scammers posing as BI employees on Facebook and other social media sites.

Forty-seven of 209 persons arrested for quarantine protocol violations in Navotas from March 16 to 19 tested positive for COVID-19, Mayor Toby Tiangco said yesterday.