BACOLOD CITY -- A 27-year-old sugarcane plantation worker who pretended to be a woman on social media to rob his victims was arrested in an entrapment operation in Crossing Gaston, Barangay Punta Mesa, Manapla, Negros Occidental Tuesday.

BACOLOD CITY – A provincial consultant for hospital operations in Negros Occidental was gunned down by unidentified perpetrators outside Emerald Arcade in Barangay Palampas, San Carlos City on Monday.

BACOLOD CITY – Three men drowned at the Himogaan River in Barangay Paraiso, Sagay City, Negros Occidental last Sunday.

BACOLOD CITY – A barangay councilor and his son were killed while their relative was wounded when they were hacked by their other relative in Barangay Ilijan, Bago City, Negros Occidental last Friday.

BACOLOD CITY – Local government officials in Negros Occidental have sought to place the entire province under the stricter general community quarantine (GCQ) from its present modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) status following a surge in COVID-19 cases.

BACOLOD CITY – Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental Mayor Rogelio Raymund Tongson Jr. and Vice Mayor Justin Gatuslao tested positive for COVID-19.

BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Gerry Rojas of Murcia, Negros Occidental tested positive for COVID-19.

The several months of isolation due to the health crisis has resulted in an increasing number of budding home gardeners. Gardening, for some, serves as a coping mechanism and stress reliever, while for others, it is a source of income that tides them over amid the difficulties that the pandemic has brought.

BACOLOD CITY - Close to 1,000 households in Toboso town and Cadiz City, Negros Occidental were placed under lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases.

BACOLOD CITY – The Army 302nd Infantry Brigade (IBde) will legally seek justice against New People’s Army (NPA) members behind the ambush that killed two personnel of the 15th Infantry Battalion (IB) in Sitio Cambaga, Barangay Yao-Yao, Cauayan, Negros Occidental on Black Saturday.

BACOLOD CITY – A 19-year-old man who was about to get married and two teenagers drowned in Negros Occidental during the Holy Week.

BACOLOD CITY – Two members of the Army’s 15th Infantry Battalion (IB) were killed in an ambush allegedly staged by the New People’s Army (NPA) at Sitio Cambaga, Barangay Yao-Yao, Cauayan, Negros Occidental on Saturday.

Lopez-led Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has handed over P4.16 million electrification fund to Negros Oriental I Electric Cooperative (NORECO I), a power utility servicing the host community of the power generation firm.

BACOLOD CITY – A former barangay chairman of Barangay Punta Mesa, Manapla, Negros Occidental was arrested after a cache of guns was found during a raid of his house last Wednesday.

BACOLOD CITY – A 66-year-old man who ran amuck was shot dead by a policeman whom he tried to hack in Barangay 13, Victorias City, Negros Occidental Thursday.

BACOLOD CITY – Three offices at the Negros Occidental provincial capitol here are under temporary lockdown since Friday after four employees tested positive for COVID-19.