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ILIGAN CITY – A female member of the Milisyang Bayan under the Guerilla Front Musa, Far South Mindanao Region surrendered to the 5th Special Forces Battalion in Sitio Tabudtod, Barangay New Dumangas, T’boli, South Cotabato on Thursday, Feb. 2.

Government anti-narcotics operatives destroyed P4.2 million worth of fully-grown marijuana plants in Tampakan, South Cotabato, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Tuesday, Jan. 17.

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat (PNA) – Realizing they have been “duped and manipulated,” a dozen members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) operating in the mountains of Sultan Kudarat and South Cotabato provinces surrendered to authorities, a police officer said Friday, Jan. 13.

COTABATO CITY (PNA) – The mayor of Polomolok town, South Cotabato province has offered a P500,000 bounty for anyone who can provide information that will lead to the arrest of gunmen behind the separate killings of four of the town’s civil security unit (CSU) personnel.

KORONADAL CITY (PNA) – The Municipal Health Office (MHO) of Banga, South Cotabato confirmed on Friday, Oct. 21, the death of a senior citizen following a diarrhea outbreak in Barangay Lampari that downed 50 others.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A public school teacher is facing murder charges after he was tagged as responsible for the killing of a 21-year-old student in Tampakan, South Cotabato.

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. raised three key points to help resolve the pressing concerns faced by the governors in their respective jurisdictions.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police are set to file criminal charges against the erring driver of a wayward truck responsible for the multiple vehicular accident in Tupi, South Cotabato on Friday, Sept. 23, that killed a father and his four-year-old son and injured 17 other individuals.

KORONADAL CITY – A man and his four-year old son were killed while 17 others were injured after a wayward ten-wheel truck rammed several vehicles on the national highway in Barangay Cebuano, Tupi, South Cotabato on Friday, Sept. 23.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police intelligence operatives arrested on Thursday, Sept. 1, a suspected member of the Dawlah Islamiyah terrorist group tagged in the ambush-slay of two policemen in Polomolok, South Cotabato in 2020.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (PNA) – Three overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who have experienced difficulties working abroad have finally returned to their families in South Cotabato with the help of the government.

Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Monday, June 6 commended South Cotabato Governor Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. for vetoing the controversial local measure that seeks to lift the ban on open-pit mining in the province which was approved by the Provincial Board two weeks ago.

DAVAO CITY – The Diocese of Marbel in South Cotabato will remain vigilant until such time when there is no more threat of lifting the open-pit mining ban in the town of Tampakan.

DAVAO CITY – An environmental group here has expressed elation over the decision of South Cotabato governor Reynaldo Tamayo to veto a Provincial Board’s resolution lifting a ban on open-pit mining.

The Diocese of Marbel in South Cotabato will hold a prayer march on Wednesday, June 1, to protest the open pit mining project in the province particularly in the town of Tampakan.

DAVAO CITY — The Police Regional Office 12 (PRO 12) is looking into the possibility of extortion behind the bomb explosion at the back portion of a Yellow Bus Line in Koronadal City, South Cotabato on Thursday noon (May 26).

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato – A tricycle driver and his passenger were injured after an improvised explosive device planted in the rear portion of a bus exploded while traversing the highway in the downtown area, this city on Thursday.

Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday criticized the lifting of the provincial ban on open-pit mining in South Cotabato, which would adversely affect the environment and the people in the community.