Humanitarian groups raised concern over the spike in dengue infections in areas badly hit by Supertyphoon "Odette" (International name: Rai) in Visayas and Mindanao and called for continued aid for typhoon survivors. 

Soldiers overran a camp of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels following an encounter in Sitio Tinibyangan, Barangay Minapasok in Calatrava, Negros Occidental yesterday.

A motorized boat loaded with smuggled cigarettes worth P9.6 million was intercepted and its 10 crewmembers were arrested near an island east of this city on Tuesday night.

The Manila city government opened the new Yuchengco Park in Escolta on Tuesday, offering a promenade view of the Pasig River.

A former commercial pilot tagged in the kidnapping of a businessman accused of masterminding a multimillion-peso investment scam was arrested in Pasay City on Tuesday night.

A monkeypox polymerase chain reaction assay or test is now available at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, the Department of Health announced yesterday.

The Sandiganbayan has ordered the pork barrel scam cases filed against former Energy Regulatory Commission chief Zenaida Ducut to be archived indefinitely as doctors confirmed that she is suffering from dementia.

Seven persons were killed in an alleged shootout with law enforcers in Barangay Mileb in this town before dawn yesterday.

The Luzon grid was placed on yellow alert again yesterday as several coal-fired power plants remain on forced outage.

Senator-elect Raffy Tulfo is pushing for modernizing the courts to conduct more online hearings to help decongest dockets and speed up trials.