BAGUIO CITY — seven days into his high altitude training at the Summer Capital, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s condition remains in check, said his famed American trainer Freddie Roach.

Roach said he sees a knock-out win for Pacquiao when he faces Mexican banger Juan Manuel…

SOME 100 volunteer nurses at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) protested Wednesday a recent memorandum circular terminating their voluntary services and trainings.

Elena Tampican, BGHMC chief nurse, said they received the circular from Department of Health (DOH)…

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — two commercial establishments will soon rise in the Valley, boosting employment and business in the province capital.

Mayor Greg Abalos said at least 300 local residents will be hired with the opening of Puregold supermarket here.

ANOTHER girl has been missing in Baguio City, police authorities said.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Cordillera said a 16-year-old Hotel and Restaurant Management student of a big university in the city has been missing since September 20.

DUE to unstable nature of the inert garbage at the dumpsite, which has the tendency to collapse, the Baguio City mayor recently urged residents in the affected areas to transfer to a safer location.

Mayor Mauricio Domogan said residents who are still in danger from possible trash slide…

WITH the growing social concerns involving the youth in Baguio City, the National Council on Children’s Television (NCCT) is holding a seminar-workshop on child protection on Monday, September 26, at the Teacher’s Camp.

The seminar, in partnership with the Philippine Press Institute (PPI…

BAGUIO City Vice Mayor Daniel Fariñas on Friday underscored the importance of parents’ role in stemming the tide of the perceived growing juvenile wrongdoings in the city.

The observation came following recent reports involving minors who by law are not criminally liable but brought shock…

TUBLAY, Benguet — Safe food for school children ordinance is in the offing in Tublay.

Councilor Pepito Darcio said children’s welfare should be given paramount consideration, and that all appropriate measures should be taken in the promotion of the child’s health to ensure their total…

THE Association of Barangay Kagawads (Abaka) in Baguio City approved two resolutions during its first general assembly held Tuesday at the Baguio City National High School Auditorium.

Abaka president Evelyn Balisong presented before the 290 attendees a “measure calling for the transfer of…

AN ANALYTICAL laboratory test conducted on the compost fertilizer produced by the Environmental Recycling System (ERS) proved the fertilizer’s high-grade quality.

Ruben Cervantes of the solid waste division of the City Environment and Parks Management Office (Cepmo) said the test…

IN CELEBRATION of World Rabies Day, cats and dogs shall be given free rabies vaccination on September 28 to 30 and October 3 to 4, at the City Veterinary Office, Slaughterhouse Compound, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In a letter to Mayor Mauricio Domogan, City Veterinarian Dr. Brigit Piok said…

A TEACHER sought the help of the City Council after she was allegedly duped by an appliances store inside a mall along Session Road, Baguio City.

Shane Balong said an employee of iHome approached her while she was strolling inside the mall, telling her about a special anniversary promo…

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Mayor Greg Abalos is eying European Union (EU) grants for the construction of a local sewer system.

The SLU College of Engineering was tapped to make a feasibility study for the town’s sewer system that aimed to help solve drainage problems.

SKY Pasada, the lone air carrier that serviced Baguio City last year, officially launched flights with its new LET 410 UVP-E aircraft Thursday morning at the Loakan Airport.

“We hope the people of Baguio will patronize Sky Pasada as a more convenient and safe mode of transport to Manila…

AMENDING the juvenile justice law would only encourage syndicates using minors to exploit even younger children to commit crimes, Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino said.

Palatino, in a forum at University of the Philippines-Baguio Tuesday, said contrary to views of law enforcement…

TUBLAY, Benguet – the council here was surprised to know that the Boted Small Scale Mining organization has operated for two years now without registration.

“We did not allow the operation. the mining industry just boomed and there is an increase in the number of miners in our…

THE City Government of Baguio allotted P19.5 million for the purchase of six brand new dump trucks, in addition to its 20 garbage haulers.

This came after floodwaters brought by Typhoon Mina breached the retaining wall of the Irisan dumpsite, killing six people and wounding several others…

TUBLAY, Benguet – the municipality of Tublay will enact an ordinance to regulate the town’s accreditation of associations.

The ordinance aims to weed out “fly-by-night associations,” which are only after the fund of the local government of Tublay, Vice Mayor Armando Lauro said.

He…

THE most wanted drug personality in the Cordillera, who is also included in the order of battle of organized crime groups at the time of his last arrest on August 25, 2009, was convicted, just a little over two years later.

Teodulo Villareal y Arnaiz alias “Teddy” was recently apprehended…

THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Cordillera successfully implemented the Fisherfolk Children Educational Grant (FCEG) under the Fisheries Scholarship Program (FSP) on September 17.

The scholarship grant aims to produce sufficient number of manpower in the fishing industry…

CAMP JUAN, Ilocos Norte – Police have arrested a suspected abortionist during an entrapment operation in Barangay 8, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte.

The suspect was identified as Gloria Ragonjan, 54, a resident of Barangay 8, Laoag City, who was arrested inside a boarding house where she was to…

ROSALES, Pangasinan – two workers of an agricultural firm were electrocuted when they accidentally touched a high-tension wire while working on a pipe inside their compound Wednesday in Barangay Carmen East here

Declared dead upon arrival at the Dr. Chan Hospital in Barangay Carmen West,…

“OKTOBERFEST is the grandest and most exciting beer event not only in Germany but in the country as well and we are bringing it in Bauang,” lawyer Reynaldo Dulay, Bauang Tourism Council chairman said.

The Bauang Tourism Council will be holding the 1st Oktoberfest on October 15 at the Rose…

BONTOC, Mountain Province – the Department of Public Works and Highways-Mountain Province infrastructure projects should be completed by December in support to Secretary Rogelio Singson’s commitment to President Benigno Aquino III to fast track infrastructure projects within the department’s…

SADANGA, Mt. Province – Majority of the people here are against the proposal to declare Mountain Province as a peace zone for fear that this would just provide the insurgents a space to recharge and regain mass support they had lost in the past.

This was gleaned during the third…