BACOLOD CITY – The MassKara Festival dancers from this city will perform in the 2026 Cathay International Chinese New Year Night Parade in Hong Kong on Tuesday. About 40 dancers from Barangay Tangub are representing Bacolod at MassKara 's second appearance as an international performing...
BACOLOD CITY – Hundreds of couples tied the knot in a Valentine 's Day mass wedding rites organized by local government units across Negros Occidental over the weekend. In this highly urbanized city, Mayor Greg Gasataya officiated the wedding of 202 couples at Bacolod City College Activity...
BACOLOD CITY – An 18-year-old man was shot dead and his companion was wounded in front of a shopping mall in Barangay 9 here on Thursday night, Feb. 12. Police Col. Eugene Rebadomia, officer-in-charge of the Bacolod City Police Office, identified the victim as Christian, a resident of Barangay 6,...
BACOLOD CITY – A 23-year-old man was apprehended in a buy-bust operation in Purok Paraiso, Barangay Banago, this city, on Thursday, Feb. 12, becoming the fifth member of his family to be arrested for drug peddling. The City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) arrested the suspect, Janjan, listed as a...
BACOLOD CITY – A 21-year-old woman was injured and 38 residents lost their homes in a fire in Purok Magti-ayon, Barangay 10, this city, on Wednesday night, Feb. 11. The fire that destroyed 11 houses occurred less than a month after a blaze struck the area in January. Fire Insp. Jemarie Tapiru,...
Police Col. Eugene Rebadomia is the new Bacolod City Police Office chief. He replaced Police Col. Joeresty Coronica during a turnover of command ceremony at the BCPO multi-purpose gymnasium presided over by Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay, director of the Police Regional Office-Negros Island...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Greg Gasataya reminded people to be wary of fake and misleading reports on social media about flooding in this highly-urbanized city due to tropical cyclone ‘’Basyang.’’ “It is sad and disappointing that, in the middle of a calamity, some choose to exploit the...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Greg Gasataya is selecting the replacement of Police Col. Joeresty Coronica as Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) chief. “We are finalizing everything, and we will announce it in due time,” Gasataya said after Coronica’s exit call Thursday. Gasataya added that he has...
BACOLOD CITY – This highly urbanized city will launch a geofenced 911 emergency hotline later this month as part of the several governance and service-delivery reforms under the administration of Mayor Greg Gasataya. In a statement on Wednesday, Gasataya said the state-of-the-art emergency...
BACOLOD CITY – This highly urbanized city will stage the 2026 Bacolaodiat Festival, one of the country’s biggest Chinese New Year celebrations, in four festival sites on Feb. 20 to 22. The Bacolod City Government Center grounds will serve as the main festival site, along with three other...
BACOLOD CITY – A 12-year-old Grade 6 pupil drowned on a river in Barangay Vista Alegre here on Wednesday, Jan. 28, two months before his elementary graduation and 13th birth anniversary in March. The victim, the youngest of four siblings, went to the river with several classmates after a half-day...
BACOLOD CITY – Thirty-five families were homeless and 16 houses were destroyed in two fires here on Sunday and Monday. The first fire at 4:40 p.m. on Sunday in Purok 3 Batad, Sitio Magsungay, Barangay Singcang-Airport affected five families or 13 individuals and destroyed three houses. Damage to...
