A fire broke out in an upscale residential area in Quezon City early Saturday, leaving five dead and three injured.

More than half of the four-hectare dump along the shore on Tondaligan Beach in Barangay Bonuan Boquig has been cleared.

The Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in the Cordillera Administrative Region has endorsed programs and projects amounting to P160 million for barangays declared insurgency-free.

Personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Western Visayas and local police seized P13.6 million worth of shabu in a sting in Barangay Lag-asan in Bago City, Negros Occidental on Thursday.

The Eastern Visayas police has released the names of police officers alleged to be involved in the shooting that led to the killing of Calbayog City Mayor Ronaldo Aquino on March 8.

Three Indonesians kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf bandits last year were rescued while one of their captors was arrested on an island in Tawi-Tawi on Thursday night.

The Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force has sought an extension of its term for another year pending the creation of a permanent body that will oversee the island’s sustainable development.

Batanes has recorded its fourth COVID-19 case.

Six persons, including a police officer, were arrested in Makati and Parañaque on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping a businessman accused of masterminding an investment scam.

The Eastern Police District has launched an investigation on the tarpaulin that red-tagged a Mandaluyong judge who acquitted two activists of charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives.