NATONIN, Mountain Province – Police have identified two minors, aged 12 and 8, as persons of interest in the death of a three-year-old child in this town. However, Police Lt. Col. Apdilon Chiday Galong, spokesman of the Mountain Province Police Provincial Office, withheld further details in...
NATONIN, Mountain Province – A missing three-year-old girl was found dead behind a chapel in Sitio Batnong, Barangay Banawel, here on Sunday, May 24. Police said the victim accompanied her grandmother to a barangay gathering before she went missing on Saturday, May 23. The incident was reported...
SADANGA, Mountain Province – The Philippine Drug Enforcement-Cordillera uprooted marijuana plants worth P31.3 million in the borders of Sadanga, Mountain Province and Tinglayan, Kalinga, on Friday, May 1. Discovered were 224,000 plants in four plantation sites approximately 29,500-square meters....
President Marcos said that trucks transporting vegetables from Mountain Province do not have to pay toll fees for now, easing their burden amid high diesel prices. Marcos announced this during his visit to the Benguet Agri-Pinoy Trading Center on Friday, April 17, following reports that vegetable...
BAGUIO CITY – The provincial government of Mountain Province on Wednesday announced the cancellation of all activities for the annual Lang-ay Festival in support of the national energy emergency, officials said. In a social media post, the local government announced the cancellation "in...
BONTOC, Mountain Province – A lady driver was killed and five others were injured when their Mitsubishi Montero Sports Utility Vehicle plunged into a ravine on the Bontoc-Mainit Provincial Road in Sitio Aratey, Guina-ang, Bontoc, Mountain Province, on Tuesday night, Dec. 28. Police identified the...
The Animal Kingdom Foundation has sought justice for Axel, an American Bully dog recently beaten to death by a man in Barangay Saclit, Sadanga town, Mountain Province. The AKF wrote an open letter on Dec. 10 stressing their appeal. “AKF respectfully appeals to the general public, the local...
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan declared a state of calamity in Mountain Province due to the effects of super typhoon “Uwan” during a special session on Friday, Nov. 14. The declaration was made following the recommendation of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC)...
BONTOC, Mountain Province – The fifth and last victim of the truck that plunged into the Chico River in Barangay Tocucan here has been found. The body of Edmund Magaway Romeo, 22, of San Nicolas, Pangasinan, was recovered at 4:38 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The four other victims – Carlo...
Rescuers have found the fourth fatality of a truck that plunged into the Chico River in Bontoc, Mountain Province on Monday. The victim was identified as Carlo Ancheta of Tayug, Pangasinan. Ancheta’s body was found on the river two meters away from their submerged truck before noon Tuesday in...
BONTOC, Mountain Province – Three construction workers were killed and two others are missing after their truck plunged into the Chico River in Barangay Tocucan here on Monday morning, Oct. 27. The Bontoc Operations Center said the truck transporting five workers was headed to a project site in...
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,...
