The highest ranking officer in charge of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has ordered an inventory of tree plantations in the region in preparation for the possible issuance of permits to cut trees provided these were not from natural growth forests.
The man who allegedly shot and killed a forestry official in Sanchez Mira, Cagayan, has been identified and charged with murder at the provincial prosecutor’s office on Tuesday.
Farm workers claiming ownership of a 500-hectare land inside Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac City denied provoking tension at the disputed property in Barangay Balite there on Monday.
The shores of Tayabas Bay in Sariaya town in Quezon have been called “haven of baby sea turtles” after Tuesday’s release of 92 Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricate) in Barangay Guisguis.
Members of the city’s Ibaloi community will receive their best gift ever on Ibaloi Day today (Feb. 23): An unabridged, scholarly dictionary of their language which many fear is on the verge of extinction.
Starting this June, commercial establishments across Albay would be prohibited from using plastic bags, Styrofoam and other synthetic fabrics as packaging materials after an ordinance banning the use of these materials was passed on Tuesday by Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP).
Those with Facebook accounts in Claveria, Masbate, reach their friends online only at night, when lampposts are lit from dusk ’til dawn in the quaint town proper that has suffered for years from little or no power supply.
A 70-year-old man in a mountain village here died in a fire that he started to stop wasps from building a nest in his house, authorities said.
This city’s police chief and his deputy were relieved following an attack on the city jail that led to the killing of three people and the wounding of several others in what authorities said was an attempt to spring a former Moro guerrilla being held in the jail.
A bill has been filed seeking the repeal of a law that created the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco), drawing the support of the Church in a statement pointing to alleged abuses committed in pursuit of the project.
No hunting. No shooting. These are the rules that protect birds, whether domestic or migratory, in Candaba, Pampanga, says Lucas Sebastian.
Three persons were killed while 15 others, including a senior jail official, were wounded as armed men tried to spring a robbery suspect from the city jail on Sunday night.
The wheels of justice will grind slower here after the Feb. 6 earthquake that hit the Visayas caused major damage in the Ramon Q. Avanceña Hall of Justice, where regional and city judges are holding court.
