Pangasinan public high school principal shot dead
By Liezle Basa InigoSAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan – A public school principal was shot dead Tuesday morning while on his way to submit reports to the Dept. of Education Division Office in Lingayen...
View ArticleCouncilors hit approval of city waste plan without OK
By Dexter A. See BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera office of the Environmental Management Bureau said there nothing wrong with the approval of the city’s 10-year solid waste management plan by the National...
View ArticleJeep rolls over in Tabuk City; man dead, 15 hurt
DILG employee stabbed TABUK CITY – A man died while 15 others were injured when a passenger jeepney rolled over here in Barangay Taniok-New Tanglag on Monday. PO3 Oliver Gayamos identified the...
View ArticleSeven women in top 10 2017 PMA graduation
Duterte guest of honor BAGUIO CITY – President Rodrigo Duterte is guest of honor during Philippine Military Academy graduation rites here today (March 12) where seven young women belong to top 10 of...
View ArticleBalikbayan urges repair of historic Girls Dorm
By Gina DizonSAGADA ,MOUNTAIN PROVINCE - A common site within the Mission Compound located within the environs of the Church of St Mary the Virgin is the dilapidated Girl’s Dormitory then used to...
View ArticleBilateral NPA-AFP ceasefire urged by Episcopal Church
By Gina DizonBONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE - Bilateral ceasefire between the New Peoples Army (NPA) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was overwhelmingly called by the the Church of the...
View ArticleDuterte urged: Probe execs in MP drug center tiff
By Gina Dizon BAUKO, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE - President Rodrigo Duterte was urged to probe provincial and municipal assessors' offices and other personalities involved in the land claim...
View ArticleGroups to NCIP: Confirm Baguio City council IP rep
NCIP staff to director: Delay is injustice BAGUIO CITY – Indigenous peoples here urged the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples to issue certificate of affirmation to duly selected indigenous...
View ArticleAffirm Sinot as IPMR / Public hearings needed on BLISTTDA
BEHIND THE SCENESAlfred P. DizonBAGUIO CITY – Indigenous folks of this so-called city of pines are wondering why National Commission on Indigenous Peoples Cordillera regional director Roland Calde has...
View ArticleImpeaching the President
EDITORIALThe filing of impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte in Congress is a move which should be welcomed as it would clear the air and provide a venue where allegations against the...
View ArticleDolores top 5 LGU in national CSC survey
By Maria Teresa B. BeñasDOLORES, Abra -- The local government unit of this town was ranked fifth by the Civil Service Commission in its nationwide report card survey in delivery of services.It is the...
View Article3 nominees for Baguio PNP chief withdraw
‘Bato’ urged: Submit more names BAGUIO CITY – The local screening committee created by Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan to screen qualified police commissioned officers contained in the shortlist for the next...
View Article‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ mulled in Trinidad Valley
By Susan C. AroLA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- A “Strawberry Fields Forever,” as a Beatles song goes, is being mulled in this capital town considering the daily influx of tourists just to see the luscious...
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MP ‘parade for a cause’ benefits dialysis patientsBONTOC, Mountain Province – Patients undergoing dialysis at the Bontoc General Hospital here were beneficiaries of “parade for a cause” in celebration...
View ArticleBaguio trash crisis averted with P75-M
BAGUIO CITY – A potential garbage crisis in the city was averted after bickering city council members got their acts together and replenished the depleted funds for environment and sanitary services...
View ArticleBauko pushes P300-M Abatan- Balintaugan road to up tourism
By Gina DizonBAUKO, Mountain Province -- A P300 million peso road upgrading from Abatan to Balitaugan shall improve access to tourist sites including Balintaugan Airfield, a potential heritage site...
View ArticleSLU top school in med tech Board
By A. Halal BAGUIO CITY -- Saint Louis University was ranked anew as top performing school in the recent Medical Technologist Licensure Examination in the country.The Professional Regulation...
View ArticleOpen pig pens, septic tanks polluting city drinking water
42 Pinget piggeries near watershed to be demolished BAGUIO CITY – Water supply of piggeries and septic tanks within or near Buyog Watershed here are polluting water distributed by the Baguio Water...
View ArticleMayor: Violence against women, kids up in Sagada
By Gina DizonSAGADA, Mountain Province –Twenty six cases of violence against women and children happened in seven of 19 barangays of this tourist town the past two years, police said.Of the 26 cases...
View ArticleKalinga barangays sign claim waiver on farm to market road
By Larry T. LopezPINUKPUK, Kalinga – Construction of a farm-to-market road project funded under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) in this town is expected to proceed smoothly after...
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