Hot days, water shortages, and drought are often associated with El Niño, while heavy rains and flooding are usually linked to the southwest monsoon or habagat.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 72-year-old man remains recuperating in a hospital in Cebu City after he was repeatedly hacked in the neck by his neighbor in a mountainous village in Dalaguete town on Saturday afternoon, June…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Provincial Board on Monday, June 15, approved an additional ₱25 million in financial assistance for four provinces in Mindanao recovering from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake last June 8. The additional assistance…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Sometimes, fatherhood goes beyond blood and shared surnames. And sometimes, it goes beyond what the eyes can see. For 39-year-old Ronnie Llamos, who has lived his entire life without sight, becoming a father…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Malacañang has declared July 1, 2026, a special non-working holiday in six areas across the Visayas and Mindanao. Executive Secretary Ralph Recto, by authority of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., signed Proclamations Nos. 1312…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Incoming first-year college students in Cebu who plan to apply for the Cebu Provincial Government’s scholarship program are encouraged to prepare their requirements early, as applications for the Cebu Province–Grants Intended for Tertiary…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police are set to file drug charges against a 35-year-old high-value individual (HVI) arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Suba, Cebu City, in the early hours of Sunday, June 14. The suspect,…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Two minors rescued during an anti-trafficking operation in Cebu have been given psychosocial support and other protective services by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 7. The agency provided…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Cebuanos can expect generally fair weather with partly cloudy to cloudy skies on Monday, June 15, the state weather bureau said. However, the Visayas Pagasa Regional Services Division (PRSD) said isolated rains or…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Initial police investigation showed that a motorcycle rider’s alleged “immediate U-turn” led to a fatal collision with a pickup truck along the Cebu South Coastal Road (CSCR) on Saturday afternoon, June 13. The…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Byron Garcia posted bail on Saturday, June 13, after being detained on sexual harassment charges. Garcia, the younger brother of former Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia and a former Cebu jail chief and Capitol…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — The Philippines may experience as many as 13 tropical cyclones from June to November this year, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa). The state weather bureau said between…
