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LEGAZPI CITY: The leader of a notorious criminal group operating in Bicol Region was killed in a shootout with the elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) trying to serve a warrant of arrest on Wednesday, January 24, in Parañaque City.

THE shear line where the hot and cold air converge has resurfaced and is bringing rain over the eastern section of Southern Luzon including Bicol Region, the state weather bureau said on Thursday.

MORE infrastructure projects are in store for San Remigio town, including a new commercial center, aimed at bolstering economic activities in northern Cebu.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved the recommendation of Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista to give unconsolidated jeepneys three more months to join or put up transportation cooperatives or corporations, the Presidential Communications Office said Wednesday.

San Miguel Corp.’s (SMC) Backyard Bukid, initiated in 2021 to assist its service personnel during the pandemic, has grown into a vibrant urban farm at the company’s head office complex, now cultivating 39 varieties of flowering plants and vegetables. The urban farm, which now includes a plant nursery and 80…

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), or diseases of the heart and blood vessels, are responsible for a third of the deaths in the Philippines. According to the Philippine Statistics Office (PSA), CVDs are part of the larger group of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which account for 72 percent of deaths in the country…

There are 395 jeepney and 108 UV Express routes that could be wiped out in Metro Manila by February 1. Check this database to see if your route is one of them.

House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Zaldy Co on Friday said unprogrammed funds are legal and designated for emergency projects listed on the government’s “wish list” in the event of surplus revenues.  Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co clarified that these funds are not obligatory contracts, nor are they part of…

Personnel of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office-5 (Bicol Region) distribute on Tuesday (January 16) family food packs (FFPs)

‘Let’s start with the mitigation measures and those that our farmers can do, which include the crops that we can plant that don’t require much water’