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SHORT OF BAN: Your kid’s phone has safety settings, DepEd says

The Department of Education (DepEd) Region 6 is urging parents and guardians to maximize parental control features on their children’s mobile phones and play a more active role in supervising their online activities, saying families and communities are essential partners in keeping learners safe. Regional Director Dr. Cristito A. Eco, CESO

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More corn, more floods? Iloilo faces a hard tradeoff

Rjay Zuriaga Castor

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Negros Occidental declares calamity as sugar pest spreads

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Iloilo City sets 100-meter no-build zone for mangroves

Iloilo City has declared a mandatory 100-meter no-build buffer zone along all its coastal areas and imposed a total ban on coastal reclamation, as the city government moves to protect mangroves and strengthen its defenses against climate change. The rule is among the salient provisions of the Coastal Greenbelt Zone Ordinance

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Iloilo City sets 100-meter no-build zone for mangroves

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Negros Power starts rural electrification in DSB

BACOLOD City — Negros Electric and Power Corp. has started a rural electrification project in Barangay Pinowayan, Don Salvador Benedicto, as part of its goal to achieve full regional electrification by 2028. Negros Power, a unit of Enrique K. Razon Jr.’s Primelectric Holdings, installed its first power pole in the upland community to launch the

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Negros Power starts rural electrification in DSB

Bacolod confirms four ASF cases in two villages

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PRO-NIR seizes PHP 195 million in illicit cigarettes

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Murder raps filed in Hinoba-an hacking

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EJ Obiena reigns supreme in Poland tilt

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Eala dominates Zarazua, marches to second round of Wimbledon

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Kawhi Leonard returns to Toronto in trade with Clippers

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Lee stays low, soars high at ICTSI Pinewoods

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Portland lands Ja Morant in blockbuster trade

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NLEX names Jimmy Alapag new head coach

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New Tuburan Study Center breaks ground in Iloilo City

Beneath a bright June sky, the future of formation and learning took root along General Luna Street in Barangay Villa Anita. With prayers, ceremonial shovels and the quiet optimism of a community gathered around a shared purpose, Daguiao Foundation Inc. marked the site blessing and groundbreaking of the New Tuburan Study Center on June 27,

Teehankee biography honors jurist’s enduring legacy

New study finds alarmingly low genetic diversity in Philippine eagle

Eunice Jean C. Patron

DENR 6 caps Environment Month in Passi

PSA, Aklan PHO explore National ID integration

Health advocates back Philippine nutrient profile model

Iloilo plants 10,000 trees for greener future

Mariela Angella Oladive

Western Visayas volunteers plant 141,880 trees

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It took a crab ban to protect our dolphins

July 2, 2026

There are maybe 13 Irrawaddy dolphins left in the Iloilo-Guimaras Strait. Thirteen. Scientists have been saying so since at least 2017, and the count has only moved one direction since a mother and calf washed up on the Negros coast years back. None of it was enough to get a provincewide monitoring program. What finally

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