The city bought the property for P20 million. The hotel will serve returning residents of Vigan City who will come home when movement and pandemic restrictions ease.

"Having said that, of course, I do believe that was a superspreader event. Because when they went back into their lines, they were very close to each other."

Only four percent of Metro Manila residents have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, an official said yesterday.

Sixteen civilian informants received yesterday a total of P3.6 million in cash rewards from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency under the PDEA’s Operation Private Eye, a citizen-based information collection program.

At least 18 families were left homeless when a fire broke out at a residential area in Pasay City before dawn yesterday.

An alleged ranking member of the New People’s Army was arrested in Zamboanga peninsula on Sunday, security officials said yesterday.

An advocate for good governance has assailed what she described as the “questionable” combined total budget of more than P160.8 billion for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Three more towns in Ilocos Sur were placed under modified enhanced community quarantine or MECQ from June 5 to June 19.

Police and the military have launched a manhunt for suspected New People’s Army rebels who planted an improvised explosive device that killed a footbal player and his cousin in Masbate.

The local governments of Navotas, Malabon and Pasay were among the model Metro Manila cities in curbing the spread of COVID-19, the OCTA Research group announced yesterday.