The easing of the mask mandate in Negros Occidental province is effective immediately, making it the third area in the country where wearing facemasks outdoors is optional following Cebu City and the province of Iloilo. 

In a statement on Sunday, the department said the road closure will be in effect until 2028.

Four members of a family have been arrested after they allegedly kidnapped the boyfriend of their relative in Iligan City in exchange for P10,000, the Philippine National Police reported yesterday.

Ifugao and this province will experience a 12-hour power interruption today, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines announced yesterday.

A wanted person was killed in an alleged shootout with law enforcers in Bulacan on Friday.

Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.3 and 4.7 hit parts of Mindanao yesterday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

The Department of Health has recorded a slight increase in the occupancy rate of intensive care unit beds for COVID patients in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

The Commission on Human Rights has started its investigation into a boat explosion in the waters off Catbalogan in Samar on Aug. 22 to determine if two officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines were among those killed.

One of the most notorious robbery suspects in Metro Manila and Bulacan was arrested in Taguig City on Friday, police said yesterday.

There are local government units that do not receive their share of the fees collected by the Bureau of Fire Protection in implementing the Fire Code of the Philippines, according to a lawmaker.