MindaNews / 22 July 2026 — The hearings on Article IV (grave threats) of the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte ended on Wednesday with the prosecution waiving a redirect examination of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Melvin
MindaNews / 22 July 2026 —The impeachment court had a light moment on Wednesday after presiding officer Senator-Judge Chiz Escudero reminded National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag not to usurp his (Escudero) function. During the continuance of the
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 21 July 2026) – Traffic was redirected, face to face classes in the entire city and work in the Bangsamoro Government Center (BGC) were suspended, security protocols were in place, food prepared, the red carpet rolled
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 July 2026) — To many, a landfill marks the end of a city’s waste. For the Ticar family and many residents in Barangay New Carmen, it is where their livelihood begins. For years, the family
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. views surrendered firearms at the 6th Infantry Division headquarters in Awang, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte in this photo taken on 11 April 2025. MindaNews file photo by FERDINANDH B. CABRERA
Defense counsel Mark Vinluan being handed a note by a colleague during Tuesday’s hearing of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte’s impeachment trial at the Senate. Screenshot from the Senate’s 21 July 2026 YouTube livestream.
The Tanuman Bridge in Barangay Tanuman, Jose Abad Santos town, Davao Occidental in this photo taken 13 July 2026. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO C. BUENO
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag giving his testimony during Tuesday’s (21 July 2026) impeachment trial at the Senate. Screenshot of the YouTube livestream by the Senate of the Philippines.
Senator-Judge Chiz Escudero reads the ruling of the Senate impeachment court on Monday, 20 July 2026, granting the prosecution’s request to subpoena the bank, Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), and tax records of Vice President Sara and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio. Screenshot from the 20 July 2026 YouTube livestream of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte’s impeachment trial.
Rep. Chel Diokno, one of the prosecutors in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte, in a screenshot of the 20 July 2026 YouTube livestream of the Senate of the Philippines.
Held last 18 June 2026 in Makati, Villgro’s Climate Action Showcase featured climate innovations from across the Philippines, including three from Mindanao. Photo courtesy of Villgro Philippines
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 19 July 2026) – At least three local government units in Mindanao will host a free viewing of the FIFA World Cup Final between defending champion Argentina and 2010 winner Spain. Iligan City will hold the
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 18 July 2026) — Vehicles passing through Damulog town in Bukidnon could expect delays after a portion of the highway there measuring around 100 meters cracked due to heavy rains on Friday night that almost
MARAHAN, Marilog, Davao City (MindaNews / 18 July 2026) – The road slip here that caused a portion of the Bukidnon-Davao to collapse on Friday night and led to its temporary closure has damaged 11 houses, according to the City
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 18 July 2026) – The Philippine Eagle rescued by members of the Bukidnon-Daraghuyan tribe in Malaybalay City has died, the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) announced on its Facebook page on Saturday afternoon. PEF said the female
The Sweep Every morning, Davao City performs a quiet ritual. Before dawn, garbage trucks wind through neighborhoods, markets, and business districts, lifting black plastic bags from curbsides while most of its 1.8 million residents are still asleep. Street sweepers follow
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 July 2026) – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – XI has closed a portion of the Davao-Bukidnon Road in Purok 39, Sitio Marahan, Barangay Marilog Proper in Davao City after two lanes
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 July) – A day after his appointment as concurrent chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel (PIP) in the Bangsamoro peace process, Presidential Peace Adviser Mel Senen Sarmiento hit the ground running by meeting with heads
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 July 2026) – Two controversial projects – the Samal-Davao Bridge and Davao City’s sanitary landfill – served as the laboratories for the second batch of MindaNews’ Climate Reporting Workshop participated in by mostly student journalists
Residents walk over logs and other debris carried by a flash flood on 10 July 2026 at Barangay Tanuman Big, Jose Abad Santos town, Davao Occidental. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO C. BUENO
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 July 2026) – “The overarching motivation for my work has been the Common Word both found in the Qur’an and in the Christian Scriptures: Love God and love your neighbor,” Mindanao’s lone Cardinal, Orlando B.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 July 2026) — The municipal government of Jose Abad Santos in Davao Occidental has mandated a forced evacuation of residents of Sitio Kibatang in Barangay Sugal following a flash flood Tuesday evening that was much
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 July 2026) — Presidential Peace Adviser Mel Senen Sarmiento has been appointed concurrently as chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel in the Bangsamoro Peace Process. This was announced Wednesday noon by Atty. Claire Castro,
CAMP SALIPADA PENDATUN, Parang, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 15 July 2026) — As far as election and security officials are concerned, the first-ever Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections scheduled for September 14, 2026 are a “go.” “As [COMELEC] Chairman George Garcia
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 July 2026) – There will be a new chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel in the Bangsamoro peace process by Wednesday. “Our liaison has informed me that Malacañang is expected to make the announcement
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 14 July 2026) — A long-time radio technician for the Catholic-owned Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC) was shot to death while on his way to his shift Tuesday afternoon, police said. Dennis Daborbor
MindaNews / 14 July 2026 — National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) BARMM regional director Jeremy Lotoc insisted that the evidence they gathered pointed to a plot by Vice President Sara Duterte to kill President Marcos Jr. Lotoc, however, admitted during
JOSE ABAD SANTOS, Davao Occidental (MindaNews / 14 July 2026) — Barangay Sugal in this municipality is going for a more long-term approach to the spate of disasters in Davao Occidental by using its disaster funds to buy a drilling
MindaNews / 14 July 2026 — Atty. Mark Vinluan received an admonition from Senate impeachment court presiding officer Chiz Escudero after declaring that Vice President Sara Duterte passed the Bar exam with a higher grade than most lawyers who were
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,
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews /12 July 2026) — A young Basileño won the gold medal in Productive Skills, silver medal in the Receptive Skills and First Place in the Debate Showcase at the TeenEagle English Global Finals in London. Jamil Oumar
Heavy equipment and personnel from the Glan Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) and from the Municipal Engineering Office deploy at Purok Cagang, Barangay Tapon to help residents evacuate and clear blocked roads Friday, 10 July 2026. Photo from the Facebook page of the Local Government Unit of Glan
A section of the Kapalong–Talaingod–Valencia (KTV) Road in Sitio Balacayo, Barangay Kalagangan, San Fernando, Bukidnon. Photo courtesy of DPWH-10 Regional Public Affairs and Information Office
Residents and relatives during the rescue and retrieval of landslide victims in Barangay Ngirngir, Calanogas, Lanao Del Sur. Photos courtesy of BARMM READi
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
General Romeo S. Brawner Jr., Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines lays a wreath in honor of the fallen soldiers at the Tears from Heaven monument inside Kampo Ranao in Marawi City Thursday morning, 9 July 2026. MindaNews photo by RICHELIEU V. UMEL
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Senior Agent John Mark Calilung. Photo courtesy of the Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 July 2026) — Only one from the six suspected out of school youths involved in the stabbing of two students of the Emilio Ramos National High School last Monday will be slapped with a criminal case, the
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
The coastal uplift in Barangay Burias Glan, Sarangani province as seen from the air. Beach resort owners say the coastal uplift has affected their livelihood. MindaNews photo by YAS D. OCAMPO
MindaNews / 7 July 2026 — Presiding Senator-Judge Chiz Escudero denied the motion of defense counsel Atty. Carlo Narvasa to exclude NBI Senior Agent John Mark Calilung as witness in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. Calilung was
MindaNews / 7 July 2026 — The prosecution on Tuesday told the Senate sitting as an impeachment court that they want Vice President Sara Duterte to appear as a hostile witness for the hearing on Article IV of the Articles
