The tourist town of Sagada in Mt. Province has asked Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson to stop the bidding for a tourism road project that was supposed to shorten travel to its most visited caves.
For years, Maribel Baccay, a mother of six, had to wake up very early to scour her rural neighborhood in Paracelis, Mt. Province, looking for bits of scrap that she could sell to augment the meager pay that her husband brought in.
Police on Monday named 11 of those killed after a passenger jeepney plunged into a ravine in Bontoc, Mountain Province on Sunday.
A passenger jeep plunged Sunday afternoon into a ravine in Bontoc, Mt. Province, and crashed into a river, killing 18 people.
The government’s effort to restore eroded rice terraces in Ifugao and Mt. Province has been complemented with a study that aims to understand how rice grown on these mountain farms survived erratic weather patterns, a top agriculture official said here on Sunday.
Five people were killed while 38 others were hurt when a truck carrying wedding guests from Benguet fell into a ravine in Bauko, Mt. Province, on Saturday night, reports from the police and disaster response agencies showed. Anacleto Tangilag, chief of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) in Mt. Province, said the [...]
Five people were killed and 38 others hurt when a truck carrying wedding guests fell into a ravine in Bauko, Mt. Province, Saturday night, reports said.
Atok, Benguet—Farmers in Bontoc, Mt. Province, began the summer by planting rice in their stonewalled terraces in April, much earlier than usual. This is because unresolved boundary disputes over water have forced some villages to manage their irrigation needs better by taking turns planting to stretch supply until the rains come. Households in many parts [...]
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet—Former University of the Philippines president Emerlinda Roman on Wednesday led a dialogue between the faculty and students of the Mt. Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC), Bontoc elders and the college president they had forced to resign, to end the standoff that had disrupted the school’s operations for five weeks. Roman met the [...]
