Iloilo City Gov’t turns to surveillance as inspections fail to trace Iloilo River oil,...

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ILOILO City — The city government is considering installing closed-circuit television cameras along the Iloilo River to catch illegal waste dischargers after days of...

HAVOC AFTER DARK: Violent night winds ravage Iloilo City villages; 81 families affected, 52...

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ILOILO City – Tornado-like winds tore through several barangays here late Saturday night, damaging at least 52 houses, affecting families and toppling trees and...
Photo courtesy of PAGASA

WV under minimal heavy rain impact – PAGASA

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ILOILO City – Western Visayas may see a reduced threat from heavy rainfall in the coming days, although residents are still being urged to...
PROTECTION FROM HEPA B. A health worker administers a vaccine to a child as her mother holds her during an immunization activity. The Department of Health is targeting 85,622 individuals, primarily children, for hepatitis B vaccination across Western Visayas. DOH-6

Hepatitis B case rate rises in Western Visayas: DOH-6 targets 85,622 children for vaccination...

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ILOILO City — The hepatitis B positivity rate in Western Visayas climbed to 2.90 percent in the first half of 2026 with fewer people...

Iloilo Province’s 1,721 villages surpass Metro Manila, all other provinces

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ILOILO – Iloilo Province has emerged as the province with the most barangays in the Philippines, with its 1,721 villages even exceeding Metro Manila’s...
The price of live-weight pork in Negros Occidental currently ranges from P160 to P180 per kilogram, according to the Provincial Veterinary Office.

Iloilo hog raisers seek gov’t lifeline; Farmgate rates fall below production costs as feeds,...

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ILOILO – Hog raisers across Iloilo are being squeezed by farmgate prices that have fallen below production costs, prompting the Leon municipal council to...
HYBRID RICE MODEL FARM. Lush rice fields in Barangay Pagsangaan, Pavia, Iloilo form part of the Department of Agriculture’s Scalable Hybrid Rice Model Farm Establishment Project. The agency targets a harvest of 6.5 to eight metric tons per hectare from model farms established across 10 municipalities in Iloilo and Antique. DA-6

WV EYES 4K MT HARVEST: DA sets 500 hectares of model hybrid rice farms...

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ILOILO City – The Department of Agriculture (DA) is targeting a combined harvest of 3,250 to 4,000 metric tons of palay from 500 hectares...
Photo courtesy of the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office

Rainfall overwhelms aging drainage system; Underground catchment basins mulled

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ILOILO City – The city government here is considering turning spaces beneath public plazas into underground catchment basins to temporarily store floodwater as extreme...
MARKET INSPECTION. Personnel of the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) Region 6 conduct a meat safety inspection at a public market to verify that meat products being sold are properly inspected, fit for human consumption, and compliant with food safety regulations under the agency's #SafeMeatForAll campaign.

CHECK MEAT CERTIFICATE, NOT JUST PRICE – NMIS; Consumers urged to verify pork as...

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ILOILO City – The National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) in Western Visayas has urged consumers to become “smart buyers” by checking whether meat shops,...
Members of AMLIG Antique and Kahublagan Kontra Korapsyon display copies of the complaints they filed before the Office of the Ombudsman – Visayas, while stacks of supporting documents accompany their criminal and administrative cases.

More graft raps filed over P670-M Antique infra projects

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ILOILO City — A citizens’ alliance has filed three more criminal and administrative complaints before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas over alleged environmental and...
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