The South Cotabato Sangguniang Panlalawigan is done with its consultations on the viability of lifting an open-pit mining ban hindering since 2010 the extraction of copper deposits in the province, touted as Asia’s largest.

A bettor from Moalboal, Cebu won the jackpot in the 6/42 Regular Lotto drawn on Thursday night.

COVID-19 vaccines are halal or permitted in the Islam faith, the Department of Health has assured residents of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao .

With many areas expected to be downgraded to Alert Level 1 starting March 1, Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong prefer that their jurisdictions remain under Alert Level 2.

Five suspected New People’s Army rebels, one of them said to be behind the operation of schools for lumads, were killed in an encounter with government troopers in New Bataan, Davao de Oro late Thursday.

The Quezon City government will open today at least 100 pop-up vaccination sites in different barangays to encourage more citizens to be inoculated against COVID-19.

Police anti-narcotics officers seized an estimated P1.54 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu in Caloocan and Taguig on Thursday.

The Supreme Court is planning to pursue a “digitalized format” in future Bar examinations following the success of the first digitalized 2020-2021 examinations held earlier this month, Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo said on Thursday.

Three men were found dead, their bodies bearing marks of torture, in separate places in Quezon City yesterday.

The Department of Transportation, through the Manila International Airport Authority, yesterday inaugurated the newly repaired and upgraded P1.1-billion taxiway of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.