The Commission on Elections received three awards at the 19th International Electoral Affairs Symposium Awards Ceremony recently held in Lisbon, Portugal.

Former president Rodrigo Duterte need not appear before the Quezon City prosecutor’s office on Dec. 4 to answer its summons for a preliminary investigation on the criminal complaint of grave threat filed against him by ACT Teachers party-list Rep. Fran...

Retail prices of rice have increased by at least P6 per kilo compared to the prevailing price a month ago as cost of the grains continued its uptrend, according to data from the Department of Agriculture.

About 60 percent of Filipinos reside in low-lying places and are highly at risk amid the threat of climate change, according to an official of the Climate Change Commission.

An alleged large-scale onion smuggler was arrested in Batangas recently, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. announced yesterday.

The retail price of round scad or galunggong, once considered a “poor man’s fish,” was up by P40 per kilo based on monitoring of the Department of Agriculture in Metro Manila markets.

The military officially ended yesterday its 12-day training program aimed at enhancing inter-operability among the Philippine Army, Philippine Air Force and Philippine Navy.

Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar has filed a bill seeking free freight services for organizations that are transporting “emergency goods and donated articles” to areas hit by disasters or placed under a state of calamity.

Former vice president Leni Robredo introduced former senator Leila de Lima to a representative from Amnesty International during their reunion in Naga, Camarines Sur on Thursday morning.

The Department of Budget and Management has started releasing nearly P70 billion in bonuses and cash gifts for government workers.

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte honored the former vice presidents of the country yesterday for supposedly “strengthening” the Office of the Vice President and bringing it closer to the Filipino people.

Former senator Richard Gordon has objected to the Supreme Court (SC) ruling that the Senate Blue Ribbon committee committed grave abuse of discretion in citing Pharmally officials in contempt.

Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla thinks former senator Leila de Lima will likely be acquitted in her remaining drug case after a Muntinlupa court granted her bail on Nov. 13.

A shear line will bring rain over some parts of the country as state meteorologists are monitoring a low-pressure area that may enter the Philippine area of responsibility in the next days.

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change Ian Fry yesterday recommended to the government the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, adding th...

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has been asked to clarify its guidelines and directives related to the Liga ng mga Barangay (LnB) and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) federation elections to ensure smooth transition.

Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio led other legal professionals yesterday in filing a petition asking the SC to declare the allocation, release and disbursement of confidential funds as unconstitutional.

eachers and students of state universities and colleges yesterday called on the Senate to restore the P6 billion slashed from SUCs’ budget for 2024 and instead realign some P9 billion in confidential and intelligence funds of several government agencie...

Despite the Philippines being a secular state, the Commission on Human Rights may receive a “zero budget” next year after four male senators questioned the CHR’s position supporting a bill that decriminalizes abortion in the Philippines.

The partnership of the DOH, UNICEF, United Nations Office for Project Services, and World Bank aims to implement nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions to reduce stunting across 235 local government units in Luzon, Visayas and Mindana...

National Museum Director General Jeremy Barnes expressed his support for the measure, admitting that it took him years and several consultations to see the significance of having a separate museum for women.

A low pressure area outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility has intensified into a tropical depression, state weather bureau PAGASA reported Monday.

A low pressure area outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility may develop into a tropical depression Monday or Tuesday, according to the state weather bureau. 

Here are the latest updates on the volcano's activity and related events.

After the sixth attack of the China Coast Guard on Philippine vessels on a resupply mission in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), a senator is recommending to the executive department the recall of the Philippine ambassador to China as a “high level of con...

Farmers’ groups will recommend overhauling the Department of Agriculture as newly appointed Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. is scheduled to meet today with stakeholders and lawmakers in a hotel in Taguig City.

Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV has accused former president Rodrigo Duterte of supporting efforts to destabilize and stage a coup against the Marcos administration.

During the DSWD’s Weekend Report program, the department flagged a list of bogus accounts on Facebook and YouTube that share fake links or false information about the agency’s programs.

The Philippine Coast Guard on Saturday said it detected the largest number of Chinese ships to swarm the vicinity of Ayungin shoal — 38 in total — during its latest resupply mission to the BRP Sierra Madre.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised on June 8 the status of Mayon Volcano in Albay to Alert Level 3 after it showed an “increased tendency towards a hazardous eruption.”

Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri and Senate finance committee chair Sonny Angara both defended the Office of the President (OP)’s P10.7-billion budget next year following the OP’s comprehensive report on its use of confidential and intelligence fund...

Thirty-two political personalities, including Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr., have joined the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas , the party that carried President Marcos in the race for the presidency last year.

Calling China a bully, senators reminded yesterday the Chinese coast guard that it does not have the right to trespass into, much less remain, in Philippine waters.

The government yesterday released the implementing rules and regulations of the Maharlika Investment Fund law, which include a provision allowing President Marcos to reject the recommendation of the Maharlika Investment Corp. advisory board on vacant ...