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Security guard caught taking photo inside polling precinct

CAPIZ – A security guard is now in police custody after he was caught taking a photo of his ballot inside a polling precinct...

Negros Power ensures readiness for 2025 elections

BACOLOD City – Negros Power is fully prepared to ensure a reliable power supply throughout the upcoming national and local elections on May 12,...
A woman stacks sugar at a store in Manila. INQUIRER/ MARIANNE BERMUDEZ

SRA updates disaster preparedness plan

BACOLOD City – The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) recently kicked off a series of workshops to update their Disaster Risk Reduction Management Plan (DRRMP)...
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Bacolod gov’t creates transition committee

BACOLOD City – The city government here has created the Local Governance Transition Committee to oversee the effective and orderly transition of local government...

Molo drug sting yields P680K ‘shabu’

ILOILO City – Operatives of the Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit 6 (RPDEU-6) apprehended a high-value suspect in an anti-illegal drug operation in Barangay...
Two men from Bacolod City were found dead and partially buried in the middle of a sugarcane field in Hacienda San Roque, Barangay Cubay, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental on May 4, 2025. K5 NEWS FM KABANKALAN/LA CARLOTA CITY POLICE STATION PHOTO

Two Bacolod residents found dead in La Carlota City

BACOLOD City – Two residents of this city were found dead in a sugarcane field in Hacienda San Roque, Barangay Cubay, La Carlota City,...
Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that affects humans and animals, says World Health Organization. It is caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira. This disease, common in rainy season, is transmitted primarily through contact of skin with water, moist soil or vegetation contaminated with the urine of infected animals. FBCNEWS.COM

Bacolod logs second leptospirosis death

BACOLOD City – The City Health Office (CHO) recorded the city’s second death due to suspected leptospirosis this year. The 47-year-old male from Barangay Banago,...
Photo courtesy of Bilis Cadiz

DBM-backed project in Cadiz City reopens

BACOLOD City – The P18 million worth of project funded by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental has...
Photo courtesy of the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental

NegOcc gov’t, WeGen sign P158-M power purchase pact

BACOLOD City – The Negros Occidental Provincial Government has signed a P158.28-million power purchase agreement (PPA) with WeGen Energy Philippines, Inc. for the installation...

Negros consumer group demands fair treatment from power, water providers

BACOLOD City – The Alliance of Concerned Consumers in Electricity and Social Services (ACCESS) based in Central Negros demands not only fair treatment but...