Stakeholders are certain the House Bill 9925, now in the Senate, will hasten the restoration of normalcy in the conflict-wracked Marawi City once enacted into law.

Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte yesterday requested the national government to include children in the country’s vaccination program against COVID-19.

Agoo town in La Union reverted to modified enhanced community quarantine starting yesterday until Sept. 16.

The Marcoses and their supporters are celebrating the birthday of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

A policewoman assigned at the Southern Police District in Taguig City who went to her hometown in Abra is in hot water for allegedly presenting fake reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test results.

A Sangguniang Kabataan council member and three other persons died when a pickup collided with a tricycle along the highway in Barangay Miranda in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Thursday.

At least 51.69 percent of the eligible population in this city have received their first dose of COVID vaccine.

Two former government officials, both natives of Palo town in Leyte, have died from complications of COVID-19.

At least 229 kilos of shabu with an estimated street value of P1.58 billion were confiscated in anti-drug operations in Cavite on Thursday.

The Pasig City police yesterday turned over one of South Korea’s wanted fugitives for deportation.