ERC cap could slash power price by 54% in Visayas
ILOILO City – Electricity consumers in the Visayas could get substantial relief from soaring power costs after regulators ordered the retroactive imposition of a...
LINOBAYAN OFFICIALS HOLD OFF EXIT: Garin intervention buys time as Tigbauan poultry farm dispute...
ILOILO – The entire leadership of Barangay Linobayan in Tigbauan town has temporarily put its mass resignation on hold following the intervention of 1st...
‘Leptos’ deaths surge in Iloilo; Hospitals open fast lanes as rains raise infection risk
ILOILO – Leptospirosis deaths in Iloilo Province have surged by more than 60 percent this year despite a slight decline in infections, prompting hospitals...
Declogging teams deployed to barangays
ILOILO City — Repeated flooding across dozens of barangays is pushing the city government to move beyond piecemeal drainage solutions and pursue an interconnected...
Crackdown pulls 170 ‘colorum’ vehicles off WV roads
ILOILO City — At least 170 “colorum” vehicles have been pulled off Western Visayas roads since January, as transportation authorities intensify a regionwide crackdown...
RSSI ravages 10K hectares of Iloilo sugarcane; Passi City LGU declares state of calamity
ILOILO – A destructive insect infestation has swept through nearly 10,000 hectares of sugarcane plantations in Iloilo, threatening this year’s sugar production and the...
COST-OF-LIVING SQUEEZE: WV inflation at 8.4% 4th-highest in PH as transport, utility, health costs...
ILOILO City — Western Visayans are feeling an increasingly painful squeeze on their household budgets as the region’s inflation rate soared to 8.4 percent...
WANTED: SIDE HUSTLE; WV jobless rate climbs to 6.3%; underemployment shoots to 31.8%
ILOILO City – Nearly one in every three employed Western Visayans wanted additional work or longer working hours, exposing a deepening job-quality problem even...
Pavia conducts high-impact collapsed structure search and rescue drill
ILOILO — To bolster local disaster response, the Municipality of Pavia executed a high-intensity Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR) Simulation Exercise on...
Meta team eyed for safe Iloilo youth social media drive
ILOILO City – The National Youth Commission (NYC) is planning to bring a Meta team to Iloilo this year for a joint initiative with...