LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The search continues for an individual missing in a landslide during the onslaught of typhoon "Emong" here on Friday morning. The search entered its fourth straight day on Monday amid heavy rain. Mayor Roderick Awingan is leading coordinated search and retrieval operations....
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...
BAGUIO CITY – Aboitiz Power has donated 4,400 liters of fuel to local governments in Benguet and Mountain Province to support disaster response efforts following recent weather disturbances that caused widespread flooding, landslides, and power outages across Northern Luzon. The fuel assistance,...
BOKOD, Benguet – Two people died after a pickup truck with five people onboard plunged into a 300-meter ravine in Sitio Jappas, Barangay Bobok-Bisal, this town, on June 30. The Bokod Municipal Police Station said the pickup truck was on its way to Baguio City from Tabuk City, Kalinga and...
ITOGON, Benguet – Three miners died after a landslide buried their makeshift hut in Camp 5, Sitio Acupan, Barangay Virac, this town, on Sunday night, June 22. Authorities withheld the identities of the victims pending notification of their families. The landslide, which occurred around 6:29...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Benguet Rep. Eric Go Yap is eyeing cases against those involved in the multi-disqualification charges filed before the Commission on Elections against him. Seven disqualification cases have been filed against Yap. These were lodged by Cresencio Akia, Danny S. Montes,...
Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar (Rep. Villar’s office) Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial candidate Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar sees Benguet as a potential crown jewel of tourism in the...
KIBUNGAN, Benguet – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine National Police destroyed 90,000 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P18 million in an eradication operation in Kibungan, Benguet from April 1 to 2. Authorities discovered marijuana planted in two lots with a...
Romualdez-led miner Benguet Corp. (BC) is looking at better earnings this year due to rising gold prices while planning to diversify its business after shedding off debt. “As gold prices continued to soar, breaching the $3,000-per-ounce level this year, Benguet is positive that 2025 will surpass...
TUBA, Benguet – Three persons were killed when their van crashed into a wall on Marcos Highway here before dawn on Sunday, March 9. The Tuba Municipal Police Station identified the victims as Justine Nichole Fernandez Bungay, 22; Homer Lozano, 46, and Arlene Nanquil, 56. Five other...
Arabica coffee wildings thrive in elevated places like Bakun, Benguet, especially as its cultivation at higher elevations and in cooler temperatures help the concentration of its flavor. (This is an A.I. generated picture.) Hedcor, a renewable asset manager of Aboitiz Power Corporation...
ITOGON, Benguet – Three persons were killed and another was injured when a pickup truck plunged into a 100-meter deep ravine in Barangay Ucab here on Jan. 20. RESIDENTS help victims of an accident in Itogon, Benguet on Jan. 20. (Photo via Zaldy Comanda) Charles Oplas, 21, died on the spot,...
