• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The proposed government-led sugar buying program being pushed by industry stakeholders, designed to address the oversupply of sugar, was endorsed by Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu-Laurel to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., according to Aurelio Gerardo Valderrama, Jr.,

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN With lots of damage to oil refineries affected by the Middle East war, Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said he is not inclined to believe in the possibility of fuel prices in the Philippines being

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Bacolod City Lone District Representative and Deputy Speaker Alfredo Abelardo Benitez is pushing for the postponement of the upcoming 2026 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections for six months because of the fuel crisis the country is

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An estimated P2 million worth of smuggled cigarettes were seized by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group during a buy-bust operation on April 6 at Barangay Old Namangka in Mabinay, Negros Oriental. In tandem

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN / THERESA MAE DULMAN The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conducted a simultaneous payout of fuel subsidy assistance to 4,648 tricycle drivers in three local government units belonging to the Negros Occidental 3rd district,

• THERESA MAE DULMAN Five individuals, including an Indian national, were injured in a gun attack along Hacienda Buyong-Buyong Road in Barangay Bagtic, Silay City, Negros Occidental, on Wednesday morning. The primary victim was identified as a 42-year-old female Indian

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution requesting the Bacolod City Treasury to release the full month salary for April 2026 of employees and officials of Bacolod City on or before April 15, on reasons that the Department of Trade and

• THERESA MAE DULMAN The Police Regional Office Negros Island Region apprehended two of its top most wanted fugitives in separate manhunt operations conducted in Negros Oriental and Siquijor on April 7 and 8. On April 7, personnel from the

The Executive Committee of the Alliance of Concerned Consumers in Electricity and Social Services (ACCESS) issued an advisory to its members explaining among others that the increase in the monthly electricity bills is inevitable due to the escalation of the

The defense team of Vice President Sara Duterte confirmed that a Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition has been filed before the Supreme Court in relation to the ongoing proceedings before the House Committee on Justice, a press release from the