Tropical Depression Basyang (international name: Penha) may weaken into a low-pressure area within the next 12 hours as it continues to move over Central Visayas, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Friday, Feb. 6. As of 4 p.m., the...
There is one cardiologist for every 44,000 Filipinos nationwide, a limited number that leaves many patients outside the National Capital Region (NCR) with reduced access to specialized heart care, the Philippine Heart Association (PHA) said on Thursday, Feb. 5. PHA national President Dr. Walid...
Tropical Depression Basyang moved closer to eastern Mindanao on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 4, prompting the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) to raise tropical cyclone wind signal No. 1 over 12 areas in the Visayas and Mindanao. As of 5 p.m., the...
Tropical Depression Basyang may intensify into a tropical storm before making landfall over eastern Mindanao, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said, as the cyclone continued moving southwestward east of Mindanao on Wednesday, Feb.4. The...
Tropical Depression Basyang accelerated as it moved closer to Mindanao, prompting the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) to raise Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 1 over the southern portion of Surigao del Sur on Wednesday morning, Feb. 4. As of 5...
Tropical Depression Basyang entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Tuesday evening, Feb. 3, and is expected to make landfall over eastern Mindanao or the southern portion of Eastern Visayas later this week, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services...
Authorities seized and destroyed shabu and marijuana worth over P14 billion in 2025 in the Ilocos region. In an interview Tuesday, Police Major Divina Albino, chief of the Police Regional Office-1 information office, said they confiscated and uprooted a total of around P230-million worth of shabu...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The Police Regional Office-1 recovered 2,766 loose firearms in the Ilocos region in 2025. PRO-1 carried out 386 operations leading to the arrest of 407 individuals for firearms law violations from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 The province of Pangasinan had the highest number of...
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Police recovered smuggled cigarettes valued at over P1.1 million and arrested two individuals in an entrapment operation in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City, this province, on Saturday. The Dagupan City Police Office reported that the suspects, both drivers, are a...
More than one million children have already been vaccinated in the first week of the “Ligtas Tigdas” vaccination campaign in Mindanao, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday, Jan. 24. The figure accounts for more than a third of the target population for Phase 1 of the nationwide...
Mindanao accounted for 2,172 measles cases, or 42 percent of the national total, from Jan. 1, 2025 to Jan. 3, 2026, prompting the Department of Health (DOH) to launch Phase 1 of the “Ligtas Tigdas” or Measles-Rubella Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-SIA) in the region on Monday,...
More areas were placed under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 1 as Tropical Storm Ada (international name: Nokaen) continued to move northwest toward the Eastern Visayas-Bicol area on Friday afternoon, Jan. 16, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration...
