Gunmen ambushed on Friday a municipal councilor in South Upi, just four days after a similar attack in the area that left a villager dead and seriously hurt three others.

The military installed a new army commander to lead a brigade in eliminating the remaining Abu Sayyaf Group in Patikul town, Sulu, a military official said.

The Bangsamoro government has taken over the field office here of the Department of Labor and Employment-12 as a consequence of the city’s having become part of the autonomous region.

The Commission on Audit has directed the payment of back wages of a former provincial officer of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Cagayan over his wrongful dismissal 29 years ago.

A bettor in Tabaco City, Albay won the P21.2-million jackpot of the 6/42 Regular Lotto drawn on Thursday night.

Police seized P10.2 million worth of illegal drugs from a medium-scale shabu laboratory in Cainta, Rizal on Thursday.

A support group of political prisoners reiterated its call for the release of activist Amanda Echanis and her three-month-old baby from a jail in Cagayan, where 17 inmates recently tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019.

Cabugao town in Ilocos Sur has reverted to a stricter modified enhanced community quarantine to contain the surge of coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 cases.

More local government units have allotted funds to buy vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 for their constituents.

A low-pressure area spotted off Southern Leyte dissipated yesterday, but the tail-end of a frontal system will continue to dump rains over Bicol and Eastern Visayas this weekend, the state weather bureau said yesterday.