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LGUs on high alert; evacuations, advisories underway

ILOILO City – Local governments across Western Visayas were on full alert Friday as Severe Tropical Storm “Opong” (international name: Bualoi) unleashed heavy rains...
“May proprietary value ang [vaccine] nga gina-introduce nila sa aton. Kon gabakal ka bala sang isa ka butang daw as is, where is ang basis,” says Councilor Romel Duron of Iloilo City.

Did Councilor Duron confess to buying votes?

ILOILO City — The Iloilo City Council was shaken on Thursday, September 25, when Councilor Romel Duron delivered a controversial privilege speech, with those...
Agriculture officials, led by Undersecretary for Operations and Agri-Fisheries Mechanization Roger Navarro (second from left) and National Corn Program director Milo Delos Reyes (second from right), discuss strategies to boost corn output during the 18th Philippine National Corn Congress–Visayas Cluster at the Iloilo Convention Center, Mandurriao, Iloilo City. DA-6 PHOTO

DA pushes tech-driven solutions to bridge 4-million-ton corn deficit

ILOILO City – The Department of Agriculture (DA) is ramping up technology-driven interventions to narrow the country’s widening corn supply gap, as demand from...
Does the Iloilo City Government owe 21 months of salary increase back pay to its permanent employees? According to an administrative assistant at the Office of the City Veterinarian at city hall, “this matter might have been inadvertently overlooked.”

Iloilo City extends tax relief as property owners struggle with higher rates

ILOILO City – Property owners here will get four more years of breathing room from steep real property tax (RPT) hikes after the Sangguniang...
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Treñas cuts executive assistants, city hall poised to save millions

ILOILO City – Mayor Raisa Treñas has reduced the number of her executive assistants (EAs) to 21, trimming down the big roster of more...
Police personnel from Western Visayas stand in formation during the ceremonial send-off at Camp Gen. Martin Teofilo B. Delgado in Iloilo City on April 23, 2025. Twenty-nine officers from PRO-6 are being deployed to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to serve as Special Electoral Board members for the high-stakes May 12 elections — marking the first time the Police Regional Office 6 is sending troops to another region for election duties. PHOTO COURTESY OF POLICE REGIONAL OFFICE 6

Policemen on alert for more protests

ILOILO City – The Trillion Peso March in Western Visayas may have ended peacefully on Sept. 21, but authorities warned that heightened vigilance will...
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Iloilo opens new HIV treatment facility amid rise in infections

ILOILO – With human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in Iloilo Province rising at an alarming pace, health officials have unveiled a new treatment facility...
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Iloilo Province among contenders for PH’s most business-friendly award

ILOILO – This province has been named one of the Top 5 finalists in the 2025 search for the Most Business-Friendly Province in the...
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City gov’t boosts legal backbone with Areño confirmations

ILOILO City – The city government has fortified its legal arm with the official confirmation of Atty. Joseph Edward P. Areño as City Legal...
Two simultaneous marches — one from Jaro Plaza and another from the University of the Philippines Visayas — converged at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol in Iloilo City at 3 p.m. yesterday, with protesters chanting and carrying placards denouncing what they called the “trillion-peso robbery” in government. AJ PALCULLO/PN

Iloilo protesters keep it peaceful as martial law anniv turns into show of anger...

ILOILO City – Anger over alleged trillion-peso corruption in flood control and infrastructure projects spilled into the streets yesterday as thousands of Ilonggos joined...