Top leaders of the T’boli and Blaan royalties in South Cotabato signed this week a manifesto urging the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to lift a provincial ordinance preventing them from extracting copper deposits in their ancestral domains.

Two persons were injured when a two-seater Cessna plane crashed in a vacant lot in Barangay Agnaya in Plaridel, Bulacan yesterday.

A cargo ship from Iloilo bound for Manila ran aground in the waters of Lobo town in Batangas on Thursday.

The Department of Health yesterday rejected the move of the Davao City government to require all its employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying it is against the law.

The Sandiganbayan has affirmed its ruling denying the bid of Mayor Umbra Dilangalen of Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao to dismiss the graft case filed against him in connection with a P5-million water project.

A suspected financer of Abu Sayyaf bandits was killed in an alleged shootout with law enforcers in Luuk, Sulu yesterday.

A t-shirt that ended up tangled with overhead wires caused the Light Rail Transit Line 2 to briefly stop its operations yesteday morning.

A workers’ group is asking Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III to hold accountable politicians who are using DOLE’s emergency employment program to boost their bids in the May 2022 national and local elections.

The Bureau of Customs intercepted three packages containing at least 826 spiders during an operation at the Central Mail Exchange Center on Tuesday.

A barangay captain in Muntinlupa signed an executive order on Thursday that would suspend barangay employees who fail to wear face masks or improperly wear them outside their residence.