First and second booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccine under the government’s “Resbakuna sa Botika” are now available at 19 Watsons stores nationwide.

The Manila city government closed the Manila Zoo beginning on Tuesday to complete its renovation.

Over 3,000 wanted people have been apprehended in Metro Manila since March, the National Capital Region Police Office reported yesterday.

Two persons drowned while swimming in a resort in Barangay Sabang in this town on Tuesday.

Police and military personnel arrested two officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) in Dasmariñas, Cavite on Tuesday.

The Commission on Audit has flagged the provincial government of Nueva Ecija for hiring teachers who did not pass the Licensure Examination for Teachers and did not undergo screening by the Provincial Local School Board.

All units of the Philippine National Police have been placed on highest security alert in the wake of the bombings in Mindanao, PNP officer-in-charge Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. said yesterday.

Four crewmembers of the foreign cargo vessel MV Happy Hiro have been charged in connection with the collision with the fishing boat JOT-18 in the waters off Palawan over the weekend that left seven fishermen missing.

The Bureau of Customs will donate to the Philippine Coast Guard and Armed Forces of the Philippines more than 47,000 liters of fuel that were confiscated by the BOC for non-payment of taxes.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director general Wilkins Villanueva is urging president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to strengthen the government’s war on drugs once he assumes office.