A fire damaged an apartment in a private subdivision in Barangay Tunasan in Muntinlupa on Oct. 1. According to the Muntinlupa City Fire Station, the fire broke out at 10 a.m. from a three-storey apartment on St. Mary Street, Phase 2 in Sto. Niño Village. The fire in Sto. Niño...
Golden MV Holdings, Inc., a publicly-listed firm controlled by billionaire Manuel B. Villar Jr., has acquired 396.88 hectares of prime land in Villar City for P5.2 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its board of directors has approved the acquisition of three...
CEBU CITY – The powerhouse One Cebu party on Monday, September 30, revealed its congressional candidates in the 2025 elections. CEBU Gov. Gwen Garcia (sixth from left) leads the introduction of One Cebu party’s candidates for Congress in the 2025 election. (Sugbo News) The announcement was made...
ILOILO CITY – More than 5,000 voters beat the deadline for registration on Monday, September 30, at Festive Walk Mall in this city. ILOILO City residents troop to the last day of voter’s registration at Festive Walk Mall on Monday, September 30. (Mariela Oladive) Long lines were seen as the...
DAVAO CITY – The Philippine Psychiatric Association has noted a shortage of board-certified psychiatrists in Mindanao amid the growing number of patients needing help from mental health professionals. Dr. Paulo Woodruff Gonzales, director for Mindanao of PPA, said during the Kapehan sa Dabaw on...
Brig. Gen. Bernard Yang took over the position as the new chief of the Southern Police District (SPD) on Sept. 30. Major Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., regional director of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), witnessed the turnover ceremony from outgoing SPD chief Brig. Gen....
SAN ANDRES, Quezon – A construction worker was allegedly stabbed to death by his co-worker in Sitio Sigaras, Barangay Camflora, here, before dawn on Sunday, September 29. Police identified the victim as Robin Capistrano of Barangay Ibabang lyam, Lucena City, Quezon. Investigation...
A Grade 12 student who died after falling from the seventh floor of the Tenement housing building in Taguig was buried on Sept. 30. However, his family is still seeking answers on how he died, believing that someone did it to him and that he did not take his own life. Melmar...
ILOILO CITY – Iloilo Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. has picked young Mayor Nathalie Ann Debuque of Anilao town as his running-mate in the May 2025 elections. Defensor, who is seeking a third and final term as governor, inducted Debuque into the ruling Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) where...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The suspect in the murder of a barangay chairman here was arrested during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Cawit, this city, on Friday, September 29. Police Col. Kimberly Molitas, Zamboanga City police chief, identified the suspect as Khyser Daris, alias “Boy.” Daris...
Tunnel workers push equipment up a rail track to a machine boring a 2.5-mile bypass tunnel for the Delaware Aqueduct in Marlboro, N.Y., May 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) A stretch of aqueduct that supplies about half of New York City's water is being shut down through the winter...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A policeman was injured in a grenade explosion in Isabela City in Basilan on Sunday night, September 29, a day before the declaration of the city as Abu Sayyaf Group-free. The injured was identified as Police Patrolman Aldimar Salahuddin of the Regional Mobile Force...
