Local News

The Department of Public Works and Highways in Davao is now conducting simultaneous tunneling activities on the first-ever long-distance mountain tunnel in the Philippines.

Officials of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front vowed Friday to help ensure a peaceful, clean, and orderly elections on May 9 this year.

A woman-led enterprise assisted by the Department of Science and Technology in Misamis Oriental now employs more than 60 local workers, mostly housewives during peak production.

The Department of Science and Technology in Northern Mindanao is drawing up measures to attract more investors for local start-ups.

During this year's National Women's Month celebrations, a Moro leader emphasized the importance of women's rights as the region launched Islamic laws on women in terms of governance and peacebuilding.

Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo urged the youth, especially the first-time voters in Surigao del Sur to exercise their right to suffrage wisely.

Twelve children of active overseas Filipino workers from the Caraga Region were provided with scholarship grants by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Caraga.

The local Inter-Agency Task Force for the management of Emerging Infectious Disease is planning to open the Climaco Freedom Park to the Catholic faithful for the observance of the Holy Week in April.

A farmers’ cooperative in Maguindanao has received PHP1 million worth of livelihood aid from the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Vice President Leni Robredo thanked her volunteers and supporters during a multi-sectoral gathering on Tuesday, March 8, at the Provincial Sports Center in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur, and encouraged them to be critical of her governing style if she is elected President in the May 9 elections.