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Davao City Police Office (DCPO) spokesman Major Ma. Teresita Gaspan said they are now preparing the security plan for the oath-taking of incoming vice-president and outgoing Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on June 19.

Up to 60 individuals from Mindanao are expected to participate in the two-day 2nd Advance Mountaineering Course (AMC) at Hidden G’s Spot Campsite Resort at Campo, Tubuhan in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental.

Eighty percent of the total election campaign materials scattered across Davao City had already been collected for proper disposal, according to City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) head Engineer Marivic Reyes.

Davao based environment group, Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS) strongly condemned the swift amendment of the Environment Code of South Cotabato, specifically the lifting of the ban on open-pit mining.

The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) on Wednesday reported zero election-related incidents involving media practitioners during the May 9 local and national polls.

Outgoing Davao City Mayor and presumptive vice president Sara Duterte urged residents to report through the Davao City Disaster Radio messenger account all uncollected election campaign materials by the candidates of the 2022 local and national elections.

The Davao City AIDS council in collaboration with the City Health Office will again hold an International AIDS candlelight memorial this Friday (May 20) at Rizal Park, San Pedro Street to commemorate people living with HIV (PLHIV) who died of acquired imm...

Outgoing Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte said it is only the public health experts who can decide whether to lift or not the mandatory wearing of face masks following the low COVID-19 cases in the past the two months in the city.

Mayor Sara Duterte said she hopes the city will continue to keep its low COVID-19 cases with the extended Alert Level 1 classification from May 16 to May 31after local campaign rallies and the national and local elections.

Two members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to the 8th Special Forces Company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion at Barangay Libertad, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur on Friday (May 12).

DAVAO CITY – The Davao Light and Power Co., Inc. (Davao Light) has recently launched its new supplemental service called eBillTxt which allow its customers to receive electronic bills via Short Message Service (SMS) or known as text message.

The Davao City Government is ready to open soon its most modern and state-of the-art Halal and non-Halal slaughterhouses in Marilog District in this city.

The military and police conducted a joint intelligence operation that led to the arrest of a squad leader of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Simulao, Boston, Davao Oriental on Thursday (May 12).

Some 160 residents in Barangay Tamugan, Marilog District, Davao City availed of the city’s mobile vaccination drive against COVID-29 on Friday (May 13).

Davao City COVID-19 Task Force Spokesperson Dr. Michelle Schlosser disclosed that the city is bracing for a possible post election surge of COVID-19 cases despite the city's current low positivity rate.

DAVAO CITY– A member of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) was allegedly killed by his commander at Purok 8, Libuton, Barangay Andap, New Bataan, Davao de Oro sometime in April this year.