Air quality checks are underway after the Navotas landfill fire.

There were 53,293 people rounded up in Metro Manila for ordinance violations under the Safer Cities initiative, the Philippine National Police reported yesterday.

An inactive sanitary landfill in Navotas caught fire on Friday night affecting some communities in Malabon and in Obando, Bulacan, the Bureau of Fire Protection said yesterday.

Sen. Bong Go reaffirmed his commitment to reach out to communities in need, as he visited and distributed assistance to fire victims in Barangay BF Homes in Parañaque on Friday.

Smuggled cigarettes valued at P1.1 billion were seized in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Friday morning.

The number of people caught violating the “Safer Cities” anti-crime campaign in Calabarzon has increased to 2,994 from 1,225.

A 24-year-old student died after his motorcycle hit a power post in this city on Thursday.

Community journalist Frenchie May Cumpio and church worker Mariel Domequil are seeking relief from the Court of Appeals after a trial court in Tacloban, Leyte denied their request to overturn their conviction for terror financing.

Three people were injured when a passenger vessel collided with a motorized banca in the waters off Zamboanga City on Friday night, according to the Philippine Coast Guard.

A third suspect in the murder of a member of the provincial board of Bulacan and his driver were arrested in Kawit, Cavite on Friday.