Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:31:10 +0000
A magnitude 3.9 tremor jolted Nueva Vizcaya and was felt in this mountain city and parts of Benguet on Thursday afternoon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 04:37:05 +0000
Candidates for Benguet provincial elective posts in this year’s midterm elections signed on Tuesday a peace covenant for peaceful campaign period and polls.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 06:36:06 +0000
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Some P1.9 million worth of marijuana plants were destroyed in two operations by the local police
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:48:11 +0000
Five men were killed on Wednesday while helping put out a fire that razed a 60-hectare forest area in Benguet province.
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Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 08:37:15 +0000
Another fire engulfed a forest area in Itogon, Benguet on Thursday, forcing the Philippine Air Force to dispatch a rescue chopper to help extinguish the blaze.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:25:58 +0000
Fire destroyed a large forest area at the boundary of Itogon and Tuba in Benguet on Wednesday, killing at least five people.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 01:49:02 +0000
After ending the year on a high note, former ONE Featherweight World Champion Honorio “The Rock” Banario had an opportunity to accomplish a lifelong dream. Last Wednesday, 5 December, the 29-year-old native of Mankayan, Benguet reached the summit of Mount Pulag, the third highest mountain in the Philippines. With an elevation of 9,600 feet above […]
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Philippine rescuers used shovels and bare hands to claw through mounds of rocky soil on Monday in a desperate search for dozens feared buried under a landslide unleashed by Typhoon Mangkhut.
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President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday blamed the uncontrolled mining operations in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) for the landslides that struck Itogon, Benguet during the onslaught of super Typhoon “Ompong” over the weekend.
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SABLAN, BENGUET—This province, the country’s top vegetable producer, has been placed under a state of calamity to help access funds for repairing roads and farms after weeks of monsoon rains in July and August.
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