BACOLOD CITY – This highly-urbanized city has intensified its campaign to clear public roads and sidewalks of illegal structures and obstructions to improve traffic management and pedestrian safety. Mayor Greg Gasataya said that barangays have been tapped to support the ongoing implementation and...
CEBU CITY – Ensure that the road is clear. Authorities issued this reminder to drivers of ambulances after a motorcycle was hit by a speeding ambulance in Barangay Kamagayan here past midnight on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Andrew Abesia was injured in the incident, which happened on the intersection of P....
CEBU CITY – Twelve persons were injured when a passenger multicab turned on its side at the foot of the Marcelo Fernan Bridge in Barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City on Sunday night, Aug. 3. Among the injured is the driver of the multicab and four children aged two, three, seven, and nine, said...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two employees of the Benguet Provincial Engineering Office (PEO) were killed after the loader they were riding plunged into a ravine approximately 100 meters deep in Lower Kesbeng, Poblacion, this town, on Tuesday afternoon, July 29. Police identified the victims as La...
CEBU CITY – At least 15 passengers were injured when a passenger bus turned on its side on a highway in Bilar town, Bohol province on Tuesday morning, July 29. Police said the Southern Star Bus with license plates JVL-125 was seen zigzagging until it overshot a sharp curve. The driver, Jernel...
BAGUIO CITY – Officials of Baguio City and Benguet are calling for a comprehensive strategy to address the worsening condition of Kennon Road as a newly built rock shed is already at risk of collapse due to soil erosion, less than a year after its completion. Benguet Rep. Eric Yap said Monday...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has imposed a 90-day suspension on the license of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) driver who allegedly rammed a motorcycle rider while claiming to be an agent of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Acting Assistant Secretary and LTO chief Greg G. Pua...
A newly-built rock shed in Tuba, Benguet, collapsed due to tropical cyclone ‘’Emong." Baguio City Mayor and Baguio-La Trinidad-Itogon-Sablan Tuba-Tublay chairman Benjamin Magalong visited and lamented the condition of the infrastructure in Millsite, Camp 4, Kennon Road. The Department of...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Friday, July 25, deployed more than 1,500 personnel and 227 equipment units to fast-track clearing operations along 46 national roads rendered impassable or partially passable due to torrential rains brought by the southwest monsoon, or...
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato – A local radio disc jockey died in a highway mishap before dawn Monday in Libungan, North Cotabato. The media community in Midsayap and nearby towns mourned the passing of Garry Lehito, 34, of Barangay Gayonga, Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao del Norte, according to a...
Motorists may now access 12 national roads that were previously rendered impassable due to the combined effects of tropical storm “Crising” and the southwest monsoon, or “habagat,” while seven other road sections remain either closed or restricted to certain types of vehicles, the...
Nine people were killed and six others were injured in a collision involving two passenger vans and a truck in Barangay San Pablo, Aurora, Isabela before dawn on Saturday, July 19. Police said the eight fatalities were the driver and seven passengers of a commuter van – Oseas Calderon, driver,...
