A police officer was found dead in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental yesterday.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Pasay City dropped to 386 yesterday after recording more than 3,000 infections early this month.

A resident of Parañaque died in a fire that struck Multinational Village in Barangay Moonwalk on Saturday night.

Environmental watchdog EcoWaste Coalition has urged national and local candidates in the May 9 elections to include solid waste management in their campaign platforms.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has reiterated its call to lawmakers to pass a law that will impose stricter penalties against wildlife poachers and traders.

The provincial capitol building of Negros Occidental in this city will be locked down for five days starting today after Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and 21 other workers tested positive for COVID.

The National Printing Office yesterday started printing 2.5 million ballots that will be used in the upcoming automated elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

One of the two missing inmates who escaped from the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa last week sustained foot injuries, an official of the Department of Justice said yesterday.

More than 3,000 tablets of the party drug Ecstasy valued at P5.1 million have been confiscated by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency from two suspects in Quezon City.

Two persons were apprehended for allegedly selling fake vaccination cards in Marikina, the Eastern Police District said yesterday.