The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources issued yesterday a red tide warning in Sorsogon Bay and Asid Gulf in Masbate.

Thirteen kilos of marijuana bricks and dried leaves worth P1.5 million were recovered near a police checkpoint in Barangay Agat in this town on Thursday.

A policeman assigned in General Santos City died of COVID-19 a day after he was brought to a hospital due to shortness of breath and fever.

New People’s Army rebels burned heavy equipment owned by a construction company in Lanuza, Surigao del Sur on Thursday, leaving a caretaker dead and two other workers wounded.

President Duterte has signed a law creating another legislative district in this province.

The country’s seafarer sector, one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, is slowly recovering, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.

Sen. Grace Poe called on the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. to immediately settle unpaid claims of hundreds of hospitals, saying failure to do so would put the government’s pandemic response in jeopardy.

At least 130 families were left homeless when fires broke out in Quezon City, Makati and Caloocan since Friday.

A policeman reportedly ran amok in the Manila Police District headquarters on Friday night, leaving two police officers including himself dead and another wounded.

Fliptop rapper Marlon Peroramas, better known as Loonie, is appealing to Philippine National Police chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar to probe the police officers who filed drug charges against him.