Beginning Dec. 15, police officers will not be allowed to go on vacation as the Philippine National Police seeks to maximize the number of PNP personnel on the streets to ensure public safety during the Christmas and New Year festivities.

A drug suspect was killed and shabu worth P142,800 was recovered in a sting in Nueva Ecija on Wednesday.

Criminal charges were filed against two persons who allegedly beat up and robbed a young couple then raped the girl in Lumban, Laguna last week.

The Commission on Human has conducted an investigation into the reported rape of a nine-year-old girl at an evacuation center in Zamboanga City.

Up to 35,000 workers in the fishing and canning industry will lose their jobs in the next three months with the implementation of the closed fishing season.

The military extended financial assistance to members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front who were killed in an encounter with soldiers in Basilan last week.

A former mayor of Conner town in Apayao was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the killing of a deputy city prosecutor in Ilagan, Isabela in June last year.

Thousands of residents were affected by flashfloods that hit parts of Sarangani province, General Santos City and parts of Davao region following heavy rain brought by the intertropical convergence zone in the past two days.

Transport network company Grab has found itself at loggerheads with some of its drivers due to an alleged increase in commission rate taken from the earnings of its partners.

The Supreme Court was asked yesterday to recall the show-cause order it issued against Lorraine Marie Badoy, the former spokesperson for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.