DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 February) – At least eight workers of a mining firm in Maco, Davao de Oro were listed to have survived a massive landslide that struck at 7:50 p.m. in Zone 1, Barangay Masara on Tuesday, burying a
“Like Superman,” private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan quipped as a state auditor testified before the Senate impeachment court Tuesday on the different sets of acknowledgment receipts for payments from the confidential funds of the Department of Education (DepEd), then under Vice President Sara Duterte, which were disbursed in different places across the country on the same date. Screenshot from the Senate’s YouTube livestream Tuesday, 11 August 2026.
Jill V. Palarca, Mindanao Institute of Journalism training officer, shares to various stakeholders the strategic design of the BASIS framework in fighting disinformation at the MindaNews office in Davao City last 1 August 2026. MindaNews photo by RAZL EJ TEMAN
Xylene Mae Del Campo, state auditor of the COA’s Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office (COA-ICFAO) testifies before the Senate Impeachment Court Tuesday, 11 August 2026. Screenshot from the Senate’s YouTube livestream.
Jonah Ibia giving a message at the community celebration for her Indigenous Women Educators Award, 5 April 2026. Photo courtesy of Salumayag Youth Collective for Forests
Mt. Apo Geothermal power plants within the 701-hectare geothermal reservation at the Mt. Apo National Park in Barangay Ilomavis, Kidapawan City in North Cotabato. Photo courtesy from EDC website
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / August 10) – September 14 is getting closer. You can feel it even without looking at the calendar. Posters have multiplied. Political colors have returned to roadsides. Names are being repeated in conversations where, a few
This year’s Kadayawan sa Dabaw features a unique ultimate attraction. It’s not the durian, it’s not Indak-Indak. It’s Inday Sara in full green bloom. Mas bagsik pa sa duryan, mas blooming pa sa waling-waling, mas bula-bula pa kaysa sa indak-indak. This
Long Trail men sweep by John Ray Onifa, Arnie Macañeras, and Joebert Elmaguin. Photo courtesy of PhilTRA
Members of the Mintal Resource Collectors’ Association (MIRCA) has turned recycling into a thriving enterprise, earning the group some P60,000 quarterly from one of Davao City’s major problems – garbage. MindaNews ohoto by YAS D. OCAMPO
Long known as the “Food Basket of the Philippines”, Mindanao produces a vast majority of the nation’s high-value crops, fruits, and corn. However, post-harvest losses and complex supply chains have historically affected both local farmers’ incomes and national food prices.
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 09 August 2026) — The Pulangi has watched over Mindanao for centuries. It carries our red silt toward the open sea. Money, much like water, leaves a trace somewhere. Fifteen Boxes and a Missing Trail In Manila this
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 09 August) – Voters in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will shade only eight circles on their ballots during the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections on September 14. The electoral exercise is historical not only because
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 09 August 2026) – When the Peace Implementing Panels of the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) meet in Kuala Lumpur on September 25, the winners of the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections on
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 09 August) – Entering the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) Camp Darapanan in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte on 8 August 2026, visitors are greeted by huge billboards of the 13-point agenda
Members of the Bukidnon-Daraghuyan tribe in Sitio Ulangohon, Barangay Dalwangan in Malaybalay City hold a ritual to mark the United Nations’ International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Sunday, 9 August 2026. MIndaNews photo by H. MARCOS C. MORDENO
Quality and affordability are keys to selling products but in highly competitive markets, catchy brand names and taglines attract customers. Take Tagum City, Davao del Norte’s “Tagum Pie,” one of the participants in the Kadayawan Festival Mindanao Trade Expo at Ayala Abreeza Mall in Davao City. Coupled with a clever twist on the familiar slogan “Ato Ni Buy,” Tagum Pie may further succeed in catching more buyers. MindaNews photo by DANILO BALUCOS
Who would take a bath or wash clothes in a river that cuts through the middle of the city? Residents of Oroquieta City in Misamis Occidental, particularly those living by the bank of the Layawan River, do, as photographed Sunday morning (9 August 2026). MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 August 2026) — Inside the National Geographic Museum of Exploration’s 100,000-square-foot facility in Washington, DC that houses Jane Goodall’s handwritten, early-research field notes and a moon rock collected during the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, one
Supporters install campaign materials of Akmad “Jack” Abas, commander of the Eastern Mindanao Front of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces and currently a Member of Parliament in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. MindaNews chanced upon them on Saturday afternoon, 08 August 2026 in Pikit in what used to be part of North Cotabato, now in the BARMM’s Special Geographic Area. Abas is nominee number 17 of the MILF’s political party – the United Bangsamoro Justice Party. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO BUENO
TAGUIG CITY (MindaNews / 09 August 2026) — I pulled an old publication from my files the other day. The pages have begun to show their age. The photographs belong unmistakably to another era. The typography alone takes you back. But
The remains of former Zamboanga del Norte 1st District Rep. Romeo Jalosjos Sr. lie in state in one of his residences inside the family-owned Glorious Fantasyland Complex in Dapitan City on Saturday, 8 August 2026. MindaNews photo
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 8 August 2026) – A massive landslide behind a school in Sitio Alyeng, Barangay Sapu Masla here has prompted authorities to recommend relocating 54 households and the Alyeng Indigenous Peoples (IP) School to a safer area.
INDANAN, Sulu (MindaNews / 8 August 2026) – The 11th Infantry Division on Thursday declared Indanan in Sulu as a place in a State of Stable Internal Peace and Security and recognized it as a Gun-Responsible Municipality as well. The
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 8 August 2026) – Every election promises a new beginning. Well, at least according to the banners. Judging from the posters one sees all over the region nowadays, things have changed. Drive through any of the
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 7 August 2026) – The city has recorded 12 dengue deaths out of 1,241 cases reported so far this year, prompting City Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso to ask the city council to secure additional fogging machines
DAVAO CITY (7 August 2026) — When most people hear the word “Davao,” Delinquent Society says they tend to think of politics first. But in an interview, Aud and Contemplate — two of the frontmen of the hip-hop collective —
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 7 August 2026) – Every State of the Nation Address (SONA) is part legislative report, part carefully choreographed theater. In his latest address, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. presented a sleek portrait of national progress—highlighting anti-corruption raids,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 August 2026) — The regional offices of the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Department of Health are finalizing the site development plan for a project to reconstruct a provincial hospital that collapsed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 August 2026) — The Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) has advised consumers to “manage their consumption” while waiting for power supply to “normalize” by September. DLPC spokesperson Fermin Edillon told reporters during a press
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 August 2026) — Just a week after the life-sized statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe visited the Archdiocese of Davao, another life-sized statue of the Virgin Mary, the Our Lady of Antipolo, is set for
A street sweeper and a grass cutter endure the noontime heat in Iligan City on Thursday (6 August 2026). Weather websites said temperature in the locality at that time was at 36 degrees Celsius in this El Niño season. MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 August 2026) — The Department of Education is looking for possible alternative locations for heavily damaged schools in Jose Abad Santos (JAS), Davao Occidental hit by the quakes starting June, as some of these locations
(Opening statement of Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the Peace Implementing Panel of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front during the 38th meeting of the panels at the Acacia Hotel in Davao City on 4 August 2026. This was the first meeting since
(Opening statement of Presidential Peace Adviser Mel Senen Sarmiento, concurrent chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel at the 38th meeting of the panels at the Acacia Hotel in Davao City on 4 August 2026. This was the first meeting since December
MindaNews / 6 August 2026 — A prima facie evidence exists that Vice President Sara Duterte spent her confidential funds for personal use after her office failed to properly liquidate the funds, state auditor Roderick Wamil testified before the Senate
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 5 August 2026) — The Commission on Elections is “prepared to conduct” the Sangguniang Barangay and Kabataan Elections (BSKE) on November 2 despite having multiple bills filed proposing postponement. COMELEC Chairperson George Edwin M. Garcia told
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 5 August 2026) — The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) revealed that it is “95% ready” for the conduct of the first-ever Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections on September 14, and will transmit the ballots to its “hubs” by
MindaNews / 5 August 2026 — The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the consolidated petitions questioning the impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte at the House of Representatives. The SC, in a press briefer posted on the SC’s website
MindaNews / 5 August 2026 — Senator-judge Imee Marcos showed annoyance over how Roderick Wamil, former state auditor for confidential funds, responded to the question of who should be considered accountable for confidential funds. Wamil continued his testimony on Wednesday,
TAGUIG CITY (MindaNews / 5 August 2026) — For a few precious hours last week, the country stopped worrying about the price of rice. We stopped calculating whether the salary would reach the next payday, whether the electricity bill could
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 5 August 2026) — A magnitude 6.4 tectonic earthquake struck off the coast southwest of Balut Island in the Municipality of Sarangani, Davao Occidental at 12:14 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews / 4 August 2026) — Six ships. That was how many reportedly passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. In ordinary times, the number would have been more than a hundred. Six vessels crossing a narrow
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 August 2026) – The Bangsamoro peace process is back on track with the Peace Implementing Panels of the government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signing on Tuesday a “Declaration of Continuity of the Partnership”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 August) – The first meeting this year of the government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Peace Implementing Panels on Tuesday, August 4, fell on a historic date in the Bangsamoro peace process: tragic
An electoral trainer on the Bangsamoro Electoral Code feeds a sample ballot to a counting machine during a simulation exercise at the Aria Hotel and Residences in Davao City in preparation for the 14 September 2026 Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections. MindaNews photo by RAZL EJ TEMAN.
Defense counsel Michael Poa questions witness Roderick Wamil, a former state auditor of COA – Intelligence and Confidential Funds Office, during Tuesday’s Impeachment Trial of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte. Screenshot from the Senate’s 4 August 2026 YouTube livestream.
The Department of Public Works and Highways XI said it has opened one lane for buses and light vehicles at the road-slipped portion of the Buda highway in Sitio Marahan, Baragany Marilog, Davao City. MindaNews file photo by GREGORIO C. BUENO
Davao City Public Safety and Security Office (PSSO) announced that over 700 personnel will be deployed every day throughout the month-long Kadayawan Festival celebration composed of personnel from the police, army, and other local government agencies. MindaNews photo by RAZL EJ TEMAN
Lawyer Roderick Wamil, former state auditor of the Commission on Audit (COA) – Intelligence and Confidential Funds Office, testifies at the Impeachment Trial of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte Tuesday, 4 August. Screenshot from the Senate’s YouTube livestream of the impeachment trial.
A UBJP supporter clears the way inside the jampacked Binidayan gym for the entry of MILF chair and former BARMM interim Chief Minister Ahod ‘Al Haj Murad’ Ebrahim, the UBJP’s number 1 nominee, for the party’s opening campaign rally on Monday (3 August 2026) in vote-richest Lanao del Sur province. MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
