A grenade explosion ripped through a stretch of a highway here Friday night, barely four hours after the fatal ambush of a policeman in the same area.

Pasig City vowed on Christmas Day to donate a total of P5 million to the local governments of five provinces hit by Typhoon Odette.

Soldiers in central Mindanao are facilitating for five days now the continuing shipment of relief supplies from local benefactors for residents of the typhoon-stricken Negros provinces.

A Sangguniang Kabataan chairman allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade was arrested in Alfonso, Cavite on Thursday.

Eight vintage bombs were unearthed at a construction site in a residential area on Thursday in a village said to be part of the encampment of military forces during World War II in this city.

Eleven persons, 10 of them professors at the Cotabato City State College, were injured when their van rolled down an enbankment along the highway and hit a house in Barangay Barangiran in this town on Thursday.

The military is continuously building up its forces in Sulu to defeat the remaining Abu Sayyaf bandits.

Police have not confirmed looting in Siargao and Dinagat islands following the onslaught of Typhoon Odette.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in the Philippine National Police is down to 13 after three PNP personnel recovered from the disease.

COVID-19 vaccines in Central Visayas have been spared from the damage caused by Typhoon Odette.