Twenty of the more than 30 people who perished in the landslides that hit seaside villages in Maguindanao del Norte last week were together buried on Monday.

President Marcos flew over the affected districts after presiding over a full council meeting of the national disaster agency and rejecting calls to declare a "state of national calamity."

The Ultra Lotto 6/58 jackpot is expected to increase to P177 million for tonight’s draw, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office announced yesterday.

A fire of unknown origin broke out at a residential area in Taguig yesterday morning.

Police arrested four persons for reportedly firing a gun inside the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque yesterday.

A team has been sent to conduct a humanitarian mission in a town in Ilocos Norte that was isolated by recent calamities.

A neophyte police officer died in what appeared to be a case of accidental firing in this city on Sunday.

Five persons died in a vehicular accident in Piddig, Ilocos Norte on Sunday night.

The Sandiganbayan has acquitted a former municipal mayor in Bataan in connection with a supposedly anomalous purchase of a parcel of land amounting to P1.8 million in 2005.

Highly skilled overseas Filipino workers have more market options in the coming year, the Department of Migrant Workers announced yesterday.