BACOLOD CITY – This city eyes to grill a total of 3,000 sticks of chicken inasal during the Chicken Inasal Festival here from May 21 to 25. This year’s festival with the theme “Fire and Fusion” kicked off with a ceremonial solidarity grilling of chicken inasal or grilled chicken at the...
BACOLOD CITY – Two-hundred eighty policemen were deployed on Tuesday, May 20, to maintain peace and order in the 2025 Bacolod Chicken Inasal Festival here from May 21 to 25. Police Capt. Liberty Indiape, spokesperson for the Bacolod City Police Office, said that they will be deployed in various...
BACOLOD CITY – Two siblings were killed and their grandfather was injured in a fire that hit their house in Purok Lison, Barangay 1, this city, on Tuesday, May 20. The fatalities were an eight-year-old boy and his six-year-old sister. Fire Officer 2 Rolin Paulan, chief arson investigator of the...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office has resumed its anti-drug campaign following the elections and arrested three suspected drug pushers and seized 4.6 kilograms of shabu valued at P33 million here. On Sunday at 2:15 a.m., the City Drug Enforcement Unit conducted a buy-bust operation in...
BACOLOD CITY – A 48-year-old high school teacher was gunned down inside a computer shop in Purok Lubi, Barangay 3 here on Tuesday, May 13. A 48-year-old high school teacher was shot dead inside a computer shop in Barangay 3, Bacolod City on Tuesday, May 13. (Photo via Llanee Zil Menardo) Police...
BACOLOD CITY – A 19-year-old college student who allegedly stabbed an 18-year-old man to death in a bar in Barangay Mandalagan here on Tuesday, May 13, surrendered to the police on Wednesday afternoon, May 14. Police Capt. Rondyl Tapang, head of Police Station 3, said that Adrian, accompanied by...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez and Rep. Greg Gasataya emerged victorious in the elections here. Benitez and Gasataya were proclaimed by the City Board of Canvassers, as the newly-elected representative of the lone district, and mayor, respectively, at the City Council Session Hall at the...
BACOLOD CITY – Ashfall from today’s moderately explosive eruption of Kanlaon Volcano was reported in 10 barangays here. Affected, according to the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, were Barangays 9, 21, 33, Alijis, Mansilingan, Singcang-Airport, Taculing, Tangub, Villamonte,...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government is set to establish a hub for emergency services after Rockwell Land Corp. donated a 1,986-square meter lot on Buri Road in Barangay Mandalagan here where a fire substation, a police station, and a Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) command center...
BACOLOD CITY – The Augustinian Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation (ASOLC) here expressed overflowing joy and extended their warmest congratulations and fervent prayers to Pope Leo XIV. “As daughters of Saint Augustine, we rejoice in the gift of his leadership and the blessing of his wisdom,"...
BACOLOD CITY – Around 5,000 households here are expected to benefit from an improved water supply from the recent activation of the Matab-ang Water Treatment Plant in Barangay Granada in this city. PrimeWater, in partnership with Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa), announced on Wednesday, May...
BACOLOD CITY – Three-hundred ten personnel of the Bacolod City Police Office arrived in Negros Oriental on Tuesday, May 6, to augment security in the province for the May 12 mid-term elections. Police Lt. Stephen Polinar, spokesperson for the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office, said that...
