• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Local government units (LGUs) are urged to activate their respective Price Monitoring and Control Councils, amid rising prices of basic commodities, which are driven by the continuing increase in the prices of petroleum products. Frank Carbon,

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Vallacar Transit Incorporated (VTI), which supervises all Ceres Liner bus companies in southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, is offering a 10 percent discount to all its passengers, starting from Good Friday to Eastern Sunday. In

Female provincial board members, Capitol department and office heads, and chiefs of hospitals of the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental, were honored as part of the Women’s Month Culmination Activity held on March 31 at the Provincial Capitol Building in

• THERESA MAE DULMAN The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) – Bacolod has placed 314 puroks in Bacolod City under ‘Red Zone’ status due to high fire risk. Senior Fire Insurance Inspector Jemarie Tapiru, the Deputy City Fire Marshal, announced

• THERESA MAE DULMAN Bacolod City will be placed under a red alert status starting Thursday, April 2, in preparation for the peak of the Holy Week observance. The Bacolod City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) head Dr.

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Disaster response at the Moises Padilla municipal government got a boost with the acquisition of a P5.4 million water tanker. Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia Yulo and Vice Mayor Felix Mathias Segundo Yulo led the blessing of

Melanie Mermida, president of the Suyac Island Ecotourism Attendants Association, represented Sagay City as the lone participant from the city, and one of only four delegates from the Philippines, in the Regional Learning Exchange on Sustainable Marine Tourism held in

• THERESA MAE DULMAN The city government of Bacolod has allocated P9 million to support the implementation of the Sustainable Program for Resilient and Optimum Urban Transformation (SPROUT). The funding was formalized through a ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of

• THERESA MAE DULMAN Two separate buy-bust operations in Bacolod City yesterday, March 31, 2026, resulted in the arrest of five individuals and the seizure of approximately P250,000 worth of suspected shabu. In the first incident, the Philippine Drug Enforcement

• THERESA MAE DULMAN The Land Transportation Office – Negros Island Region (LTO-NIR) has issued a show cause order to the owner of a white Mitsubishi Expander caught on video fleeing a Bacolod fuel station after gassing up without paying.