A limit on the operating hours of restobars in Murcia, Negros Occidental is being proposed. Photo shows one of the three fatalities in a restobar brawl in Barangay Salvacion on Friday, March 31. KUYA RANDY FACEBOOK PHOTO/RADYO BANDERA

Limit on restobars’ operating hours in Murcia mulled

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – The town mayor of Murcia, Negros Occidental will meet with restobar owners about the proposal to limit...
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Siblings drown in Dao river

CAPIZ – Two siblings drowned in a river in Barangay Matagnop in Dao town here on Monday morning. Benjamin Dizon, 15, and Maricel, 10, were...
MOUNTAIN MARATHONER. Larry Apolinario is a member of the Indigenous Peoples (IP) from the Municipality of Laua-an in Antique. Photo courtesy of Richard Burton Fillone/PNA

Antiqueño dominates nat’l trail running championships

SAN JOSE, Antique – Larry Apolinario, a native of Iraynon Bukidnon community in Barangay Capnayan, Municipality of Laua-an, Antique, ruled the first-ever Philippine Trail...
Camp Peralta, Jamindan, Capiz was declared a military reservation through Presidential Proclamation No. 67. At 33,310 hectares, it is the third largest military camp in the country. PNA PHOTO

Prison facility for heinous crimes eyed in Camp Peralta

ROXAS City – The decongestion of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) main facility in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila will start mid-April, the Department of...
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10 defective weighing scales seized

BACOLOD City – The City Enforcement Team (CET) of the City Legal Office (CLO) confiscated 10 weighing scales found to be defective at the...
Four plastic sachets and one knot-tied plastic sachet of suspected shabu were recovered from drug suspect Richard “Cherry Ferrer” Ferrer in a drug buy-bust operation in Roxas City on March 30. Roxas City Police Station photo

Online seller busted, P1.7M ‘shabu’ seized

CAPIZ – Around 250 grams of suspected shabu valued at P1,700,000 were confiscated from a high-value drug suspect in a drug buy-bust operation in...
Smoke billows from a pile of corrugated galvanized iron sheets – ruins of a house and fruit stand that fire struck in Numancia, Aklan on April 1.

Fruit stand, house in Numancia go up in smoke

KALIBO, Aklan – Fire broke out in a fruit stand and house in Numancia, Aklan on Saturday afternoon, April 1. Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)...

Roxas City hailed champion in DICT Digital Governance Awards

ROXAS City – This city was hailed as champion in the Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) 2022 Digital Governance Awards (DGA) at...
Tulong Panghanap-Buhay sa Disadvantaged/Displaced workers of the Department of Labor and Employment pose for a photo before their cleanup operation in Caluya, Antique on Friday, March 31. Philippine Coast Guard - Antique Station commander Lieutenant Senior Grade Rey Anacita said no new oil spill has been reported in the area for the past two weeks. DOLE ANTIQUE PHOTO

No oil spill spotted off Caluya for past 2 weeks

ANTIQUE – No new oil spills have been sighted off the island municipality of Caluya for the past two weeks, the Philippine Coast Guard...
Personnel of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Region 6 released assistance to the oil spill-affected residents of Caluya, Antique. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/PNA

DSWD releases P40.8-M aid to oil spill victims in Caluya

ILOILO City – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 6 released P40.8 million in humanitarian assistance to oil spill-affected residents of...