"The utility companies should conduct works on a particular area synchronously so that road diggings are not done repeatedly, except for emergency repairs," the MMDA chief emphasized. 

The suspect in the killing of a barangay leader in Caloocan was killed in an alleged encounter with police on Sunday.

Caloocan Mayor Oscar Malapitan yesterday placed Barrio Pacita in Barangay 95 on extreme lockdown amid the rising cases of COVID-19.

A retired teacher died after she was trapped in a fire that destroyed her house in Santiago City, Isabela on Sunday.

The city government of Urdaneta in Pangasinan yesterday recorded 24 new COVID cases including two children aged four.

Ten Abu Sayyaf bandits including five women surrendered to the mlitary in Sulu on Sunday.

A magnitude-3.8 earthquake rocked parts of Northern Mindanao yesterday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.

The son of slain activist Jose Reynaldo Porquia yesterday asked Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra to direct the Administrative Order 35 Task Force to investigate and solve the murder of his father.

The owners of M/V Racal IV, which capsized in the waters off Jasaan town in Misamis Oriental, have vowed to take full responsibility for the oil spill that occurred on April 3, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said yesterday.

Two more police personnel died days after contracting COVID-19 as the Philippine National Police recorded 107 new cases on Sunday.