BENGUET, Philippines — The Environment department has given the Benguet provincial mining regulatory board the authority to decide whether mine tunnels, stockpiled mineral ores and mineral processing ...

MANILA, Philippines – Typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) may have already left the Philippine Area of Responsibility, but Filipinos are still reeling from its aftermath. In Itogon, Benguet, police, volunteers, ...

Three more bodies were pulled out from the landslide area in Itogon, Benguet on Saturday, in addition to the seven recovered before noon, bringing the death toll to 42 before the sixth day of search ...

Disaster scientist Mahar Lagmay laments that while technology allowed officials to see the problem, it wasn't used to solve it MANILA, Philippines – In the span of a week, two massive landslides hit ...

MANILA, Philippines— Itogon Mayor Victorio Palangdan on Wednesday said the local government implemented preemptive evacuation in the landslide area before the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong ...

The authorities conducting search operations in Barangay Ucab in Itogon, Benguet seemed to have given up hope of finding any more survivors at the site of the landslide that killed dozens since last ...