JOSE ABAD SANTOS, Davao Occidental (MindaNews / 14 July 2026) — A fourth body has been found three days after the July 10 flash flood that hit Barangay Tanuman in the municipality of Jose Abad Santos (JAS). Another set of
DAVAO OCCIDENTAL (MindaNews / 13 July 2026) — The Tanuman Bridge in Barangay Tanuman, Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental was opened to all types of vehicles effective 6:30 p.m. on Sunday after clearing operations, two days after a deadly flash flood in
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (13 July 2026) — Motorists can now pass through one lane in landslide-hit areas of Barangay Kapatan and Sitio Nacolyael in Barangay Small Margus in Glan, Sarangani, following hours of emergency clearing operations. In an advisory issued
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 July) — Nearly half of Filipino learners are unable to read at grade level by the end of Grade 3, according to the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM 2), a learning crisis the commission
JOSE ABAD SANTOS, Davao Occidental (MindaNews / 12 July 2026) — Rescuers found three bodies in the aftermath of a flash flood in Barangay Tanuman Big that swept four houses into the sea on July 10. But six more residents
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 July 2026) – Fourteen countries on Saturday issued a joint statement rejecting China’s “expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea,” including those based on “historic rights.” The statement, released on the eve of the
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 12 July 2026) — The municipal government of Calanogas in Lanao del Sur on Friday declared a state of calamity following the devastation in at least four barangays, including a landslide that claimed at least seven lives,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 July 2026) — Philippine Airlines Flight PR 1805 from Manila to Davao City was diverted to the Mactan International Airport in Cebu after three failed landing attempts at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport here on Friday
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 10 July) — A landslide triggered by heavy rains brought about by Super Typhoon Inday left five persons dead, six others missing and several houses buried in Barangay Ngirngir, Calanogas, Lanao del Sur at around 2:30 a.m.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 10 July 2026) – Southwest monsoon rains enhanced by Super Typhoon Inday flooded low-lying villages in Malaybalay City and parts of Bukidnon on Wednesday, leaving two persons dead. Disaster monitoring centers at the Police Regional
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Senior Agent John Mark Calilung. Photo courtesy of the Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 July 2026) – Mindanao’s lone Cardinal, Orlando B. Quevedo, OMI, the Catholic religious leader who played a major role in the Bangsamoro peace process, will be honored on July 15 in Jakarta, Indonesia as the first
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 7 July 2026) — Article IV on the alleged assassination plot, grave threats, and inciting sedition against the government will be the first Article of Impeachment that will be heard in the impeachment trial of Vice
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 July 2026) – The Prosecution and Defense panels invoked accountability of public officials in their opening statements on Monday, Day 1 of the trial of impeached Vice President Sara Duterte. But while the Prosecution focused
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 7 July 2026) — A landslide triggered a highway collapse along the San Fernando-Talaingod Road on Monday, forcing authorities to divert traffic to alternative routes. No casualties were reported after a landslide buried a 228-meter
MindaNews / 6 July 2026 — The start of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday, July 6, opened with a debate on who should act as presiding officer. Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian presided the proceedings when
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 July 2026) — If the vice president is innocent and her office is clean, what scares her to face the impeachment trial? This was the statement of a leader of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)-Southern
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 July 2026) – Impeached Vice President Sara Duterte, Mindanao’s highest ranking elected official, faces the Senate Impeachment Court starting July 6, Day 1 of the 92 hearings scheduled. Sixty-two of the hearings have been proposed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 July 2026) – Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIP) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will select representatives for their two reserved seats in the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament ahead of the rest in the region
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 July) – The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)’s Peace Implementing Panel (PIP) has expressed concern on alleged “undue intervention by high government officials” in the run-up to the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 July 2026) — The death toll in the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake on June 8 has reached 92, with the largest numbers recorded in Glan, Sarangani and General Santos City. Seventy-one died in Region XII while
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 05 July 2026) — Joint security forces from police and military in Central Mindanao have neutralized Ismael Abubakar aka Kumander Bungos, the leader of a breakaway faction of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), at
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 July 2026) – The chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel will be named on July 15, Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento, Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity told representatives of civil society on Thursday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 2 July 2026) — MindaNews writer Allizah Keziah M. Manulat is the class of 2026 valedictorian of the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UP Mindanao) with a general weighted average of 1.111. The Davao City resident graduates with
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 June 2026) – The Davao City launch of the Dapat Isa Lang Movement (D1LM), a nationwide people’s initiative to pass a genuine anti-political dynasty law in the country, was held here Tuesday, aimed at gathering
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 30 June 2026) – An educators network on Tuesday junked calls for heightened police presence in schools and lowering the age of criminal responsibility after two minors were tagged in a school shooting in Tacloban City
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 June 2026) – Eight of the Top 10 passers in the Licensure Examination for Architects (LEA) are graduates of Mindanao schools, with the topnotcher coming from the University of the Philippines-Mindanao, results posted on the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) – What happened in Dipaculao, Aurora on June 8 that led to the death of Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili was hazing and the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) – “Divine is home. His body arrived in his hometown Umueri in Anambra state today, but this is not the homecoming we prayed for. We sent him to the Philippines with blessings, with
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) — Mindanao could see expanded international cooperation in education, labor mobility, trade, and disaster resilience as European diplomats signaled growing interest in strengthening partnerships with the region beyond its long-standing role in peacebuilding.
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) — Authorities ended on June 23 the search and rescue operation for Alkharj Gomez Zamayla, a hiker who went missing two weeks ago on Mt. Kalatungan Range in Bukidnon. Major Joann Navarro,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 June 2026) — Ateneo Blue Eagles player Divine Adili is finally home in Lagos, Nigeria, 17 days after he and new recruit Rene Clert Baterbonia of Talacogon, Agusan del Sur drowned during a “team building”
TALACOGON, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 24 June 2026) — Rovelyn Baterbonia arrived at the new municipal cemetery in Barangay Labnig with her family at 10:07 a.m. and as soon as the lid of the white casket was opened two
By Guinevere LatozaPhilippine Center for Investigative Journalism Highlights Companies owned by some of the country’s richest business tycoons have run circles around government regulators, allowing them to gain control of the country’s clean energy resources. Last year, Ramon Ang’s San
BURIAS, GLAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 24 June 2026) — Residents who live along Barangay Burias, one of the spots identified as having shorelines with coastal uplift, are facing an uncertain future. Not only has the beach front moved around 200
TALACOGON, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 24 June 2026) — Rene Clert ‘Bobet’ Baterbonia will be laid to rest on Wednesday morning in the town’s new municipal cemetery in Barangay Labnig while his Blue Eagles teammate, Chukwuemeka Divine Adili, who
BARANGAY BALITON, Glan, Sarangani (MindaNews / 22 June 2026) — Volunteer groups and vloggers appear to be delivering ayuda faster in far-flung areas across Glan, Sarangani and Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental, according to locals affected by the June 8 Magnitude 7.8
GLAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 20 June 2026) – The damage to marine resources caused by the coastal uplift in barangays along Sarangani Bay after the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake on June 8 has been estimated to have reached P70 billion so
GLAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 20 June 2026) — Two senior citizens, an infant, and a toddler were among the 21 recorded casualties here of the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck on June 8, according to data from the municipal office of
GLAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 19 June 2026) – The football field of a local school has been utilized as a field hospital after the 30-bed capacity Municipal Hospital was declared a red-tagged structure following the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked
TALACOGON, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 19 June 2026) – Conversations in this town by the Agusan River on Monday, June 8, focused on the 7:37 a.m. Magnitude 7.8 earthquake that triggered the collapse of buildings in General Santos, Sarangani
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 June) — Several agencies have vowed to investigate the deaths of basketball players Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili of the Ateneo de Manila University’s Blue Eagles but 11 days later, what is the status of
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 19 June 2026) — Police in Northern Mindanao have extended the search for missing climber Alkharj Gomez Zamayla by 10 days, as his family continued their vigil in Barangay Portulin, Pangantucan, Bukidnon. Zamayla, a resident
PANGANTUCAN, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 18 June 2026) — A total of 127 volunteers, soldiers, and police officers backed by drones and K9 units have failed to find 31-year-old hiker Alkharj Gomez Zamayla, who went missing while climbing Mt. Kalatungan, the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / June 18 2026) — The mother of the late standout basketball player, Rene Clert “Bobet” Baterbonia, took to social media to ask supporters and entrepreneurs to refrain from selling apparel bearing images of her son that
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /17 June 2026) – There is no truth to allegations that Rene Clert ‘Bobet’ Baterbonia’s teammates at the Ateneo de Manila University’s Blue Eagles hated him or didn’t accept him, two of his teammates said. “I just wanna
TALACOGON, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 17 June) – Fourteen-year old Rhenz “RB” Baterbonia was practising basketball late afternoon of June 8 in the dormitory in Davao City where he and his Kuya Bobet (Rene Clert ‘Bobet’ Baterbonia) shared a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 June 2026) – The Educators Forum for Development (EFD) Mindanao has called for transparency in the investigation of the deaths of student-athletes Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili. Baterbonia and Adili were members of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 June 2026) – Damaged roads and infrastructure are hampering efforts to reach residents of at least three isolated barangays in Jose Abad Santos town in Davao Occidental who were affected by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake
TALACOGON, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 16 June) – “Wa gani ko katingog gahapon. Na shock ko.” (I was speechless yesterday. I was shocked), Rovelyn ‘Bebet’ Baterbonia recalls her feelings upon seeing the crowds that turned up along the 246-kilometer journey on
