Fire damages Tacloban public market building; probe, recovery efforts underway
TACLOBAN CITY – Authorities are conducting an investigation into the fire that broke out at the MASA Building inside the Tacloban Public Market on Saturday morning, July 19, 2025.
The fire, which started at around...
Tingog welcomes surge in public trust in House, cites Speaker Romualdez’s steady leadership
TACLOBAN CITY – Tingog party-list has welcomed the rise in public trust in the House of Representatives, attributing the positive shift to the consistent and responsive leadership of Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.
The latest Social...
DPWH completes preventive maintenance project along PCO Road in Tunga
TACLOBAN CITY- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Leyte Second District Engineering Office (L2DEO) has completed a preventive maintenance project on its primary road along a stretch of the Palo-Carigara-Ormoc road, particularly...
Leyte board probes medical waste shipments from Mandaue to Isabel facility
TACLOBAN CITY- Three committees of the Leyte Sangguniang Panlalawigan will jointly investigate the reported disposal of hazardous medical waste transported from Mandaue City, Cebu to a treatment facility in Isabel town, Leyte citing environmental...
GIDA towns in Samar Island grateful for new ‘Doctors to the Barrio’ deployments
TACLOBAN CITY – Local officials in two remote Samar Island municipalities expressed gratitude for being included in the latest deployment under the Department of Health’s (DOH) Doctors to the Barrio (DTTB) Program, which aims...
Red tide alert raised in two bays in Eastern Visayas; shellfish gathering temporarily banned
TACLOBAN CITY – Health authorities have issued a precautionary red tide warning in parts of Eastern Samar and Samar provinces after shellfish samples tested positive for toxic red tide organisms, according to a July...