After three days of continued search and rescue operations, the body of Forest Monitoring Officer Rigor Santos was found around 11 a.m.

Two communist rebels were killed in an encounter with government troopers in a remote village in Besao, Mountain Province yesterday.

Joint security forces and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency seized a kilo of cocaine valued at P5.3 million in a sting in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi on Friday.

A 60-year-old woman who was on her way home to Carnaza Island drowned while 50 others were rescued when their boat capsized in the waters off Daanbantayan in Cebu on Friday night.

Police arrested a couple charged in connection with a multibillion investment scam allegedly perpetrated by the Kapa Community Ministry International Inc. in this city on Thursday.

An education official is proposing that two schools in Navotas join the pilot run of face-to-face classes.

The ban on heavy and light trucks in Metro Manila would remain suspended, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said yesterday.

The crime rate in Metro Manila has dropped by 14 percent due to police operations against crime and illegal drugs, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said yesterday.

Philippine National Police chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar has ordered summary dismissal proceedings against an anti-narcotics police officer for kidnapping a Chinese man.

Authorities on Saturday allayed fears of possible retaliations by followers of the leader of the Dawlah Islamiya who was killed by soldiers in Talayan, Maguindanao before dawn Friday.