DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 August 2026) — Officials here, all from the Duterte family, have expressed their sympathy and outrage over the shooting incident at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University Tuesday morning. Mayor Sebastian Duterte, meanwhile, ordered security to
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 18 August 2026) — In a shooting rampage inside the Ateneo de Zamboanga University early morning Tuesday, a seventh grader shot dead a schoolmate, wounded others, then shot himself, city and school officials confirmed. The student
MindaNews / 17 August 2026 – The former special disbursing officer of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) admitted Monday that she turned over P125 million in cash to Col. Raymund Lachica, then-head of the Vice Presidential Security Group,
MindaNews / 17 August 2026 – A visibly impatient Senator-judge Erwin Tulfo interrupted the direct examination Monday of Gina Acosta, former special disbursing officer of the Office of the Vice President, to confront her on why she appeared struggling with
MindaNews / 17 August 2026 – The former special disbursing officer (SDO) of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) said Monday that Physical and Financial Plans involving confidential funds don’t need to specify targets and activities, a statement that
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / August 16) — UNESCO evaluators arrived here on Sunday to start its five-day field validation on the nomination of the country’s highest peak as a potential UNESCO Global Geopark. UNESCO evaluators Gay Martin Martini of France
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (16 August 2026) — The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is proposing to replace the country’s paper-based catch certification system with an electronic platform to improve the traceability of fish and fishery products for export.
Daughter goes to CA for judicial recognition of her father as 58th victim of Ampatuan Massacre DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 August 2026) – The daughter of Tacurong City’s Midland Review photojournalist Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay on Friday filed before the Court
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 August 2026) — Maria Flor Gubat has watched Dula Kadayawan (Kadayawan Games) for a decade now but she came not as a delegate but as a proud mother and spouse of delegates from the Klata
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 16 August) — The August 17, 1976 earthquake that triggered a tsunami remains one of the darkest nights in Philippine history — memories of sudden tremors, receding seas, terrifying sounds, and giant waves that claimed thousands
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) — Coastal areas in the Philippines, especially those facing the Pacific Ocean, South China Sea, Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea, are susceptible to tsunamis that occur within a very short time: the first
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) – August 17, 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the Magnitude 8.2 quake that struck at 12:11 a.m. and triggered a tsunami along the Moro Gulf that, according to a 1978 report for the
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) — Abdulraof “Sammy Gambar” Macacua, Bangsamoro Interim Chief Minister, and his entourage escaped unharmed after their convoy was ambushed around 4:45 p.m. Saturday in Barangay Dulangan, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte. The
KABUNTALAN, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) — Abdulraof “Sammy Gambar” Macacua, Interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, has been sworn in as chair and president of the Bangsamoro Federalist Party (BFP). Macacua’s
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) — Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) Home said it can still serve up to around 45,000 households in the city who will need internet service, following the launch Friday of the Kadayawan Festival
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) — Various government agencies have finished a two-week assessment that is expected to provide consolidated data on the impact of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Sarangani in June as well as
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 14 August 2026) — Children’s safety occupied the minds of some parents as face-to-face classes resumed here starting Thursday after being suspended for two months after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on June 8 that damaged
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 14 August 2026) – Traders attending the 35th Mindanao Business Conference at the Limketkai Mall here are pushing for mobile banking innovations to boost the island’s P2-trillion agricultural economy. Maricel Casiño-Rivera, a director of the
SAN FERNANDO, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 13 August 2026) — The provincial government of Davao del Norte will be constructing retention ponds to prevent floods with financing from Land Bank of the Philippines for the ₱400-million project. Edwin S. Misa, provincial
SAN FERNANDO, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 13 August 2026) — With local governments from either side of the highway connecting Bukidnon and Davao del Norte absent to implement police powers, vehicles could still pass through a landslide portion of the Kapalong-Talaingod-Valencia
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews / 13 August 2026) — Schools in several parts of the Caraga Region have suspended or shortened face-to-face classes as local governments respond to extreme heat, with some schools shifting to alternative learning modalities during the hottest
MindaNews / 13 August 2026 — Expenditures amounting to ₱448.287 million or almost 90 percent of ₱500 million in confidential funds for the Office of the Vice President were disallowed by the Commission on Audit (COA), a state auditor told
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 13 August 2026) — Classes in all levels have been suspended here and in neighboring Cagayan de Oro City “as a preemptive measure to safeguard the health, safety and personnel amid the prevailing high heat index.”
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 12 August 2026) — A failed audition in 2024 did not end 15-year-old Ivana Jane Juan’s dream. Two years later, she stood on the international stage in Las Vegas, Nevada not only as a
TARRAGONA, Davao Oriental (MindaNews / 12 August 2026) — For the first time in its history, Tarragona is set to participate in the Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan of the Kadayawan Festival in Davao City, bringing together performers from across the municipality
MindaNews / 12 August 2026 — The use of fictitious names by the supposed recipients of payments charged to the Office of the Vice President’s confidential funds was not among the grounds for the notices of disallowance on the funds,
MindaNews / 12 August 2026 — A state auditor testifying before the Senate impeachment court maintained that the reports submitted by the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education to the Commission on Audit (COA) were
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 12 August 2026) — Mindanao’s business leaders are calling for more robust business chambers to be able to help small and emerging enterprises. Leaders interviewed by MindaNews at the start of the three-day 35th
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 12 August 2026) — Across Mindanao, small producers and emerging enterprises are making products that reflect local resources, skills and ideas. But for many of them, production is only one part of building a
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 12 August 2026) — Around 30 journalists from across Northern Mindanao who are covering the first Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections will undergo a three-day safety training here next week. The inaugural parliamentary elections are scheduled
MindaNews / 11 August 2026 – Different sets of acknowledgment receipts for payments from the confidential funds of the Department of Education (DepEd) under then-secretary Vice President Sara Duterte were disbursed in different places across the country on a single
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 August 2026) — Just over a month before the first Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections, MindaNews brought together journalists, educators, community representatives, and technical experts on August 1 to develop a framework for countering disinformation and producing
MindaNews / 11 August 2026 – The Commission on Audit (COA) sent a notice of disallowance to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) for its P73 million in confidential funds, a witness from the agency confirmed Tuesday. Xylene Mae
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 August 2026)– An hour before the sun rises in Bukidnon, Jonah Ibia is already on the way, traversing a rolling, rocky terrain. For twenty-five years, she has walked exactly the same path, interrupted only in times of
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/11 August 2026)— The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) issued red and yellow alerts for the Mindanao power grid after several major and minor power plants on the island were forced to reduce output on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 August 2026)– Thirteen Mindanawons were among the Philippine delegates who dominated the individual and team podiums at the Southeast Asian Trail Running Cup (SEATRC) held last 24-26 July 2026 in Cianjur, Indonesia, culminating in a decisive overall
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 August 2026) – A nongovernment organization in Barangay Mintal has earned around P60,000 from trash, turning one of Davao City’s major problems – garbage – into a source of income at the barangay level. The
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
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
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
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 / 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
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
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
