BAKUN, BENGUET—The operator of the three hydropower plants here on Wednesday shut down its facilities after local officials enforced a cease-and-desist order (CDO) issued by the National Commission on ...

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (PIA) — Close to a thousand residents of the municipality of Bakun benefitted from the HEALTHIER Benguet Caravan on October 15, 2025. Through the caravan, the provincial ...

BAGUIO CITY—The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in the Cordillera issued this week a notice of violation to the company operating three hydroelectric power plants in Benguet province ...

The Sandiganbayan has acquitted one of the co-accused of former Bakun, Benguet mayor Bartolome Coga following the approval of her plea bargain deal in their fertilizer fund scam case. A May 7 decision ...

SENATE Energy Committee Chairman Sherwin Gatchalian urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to exercise its mandate to resolve the issues involving the impending shutdown of the three hydroelectric power ...

ABOITIZPOWER Corp. unit Hedcor, Inc. has resumed the operations of its three hydroelectric facilities in Bakun, Benguet, after reaching a deal with indigenous groups, which earlier withdrew their ...

THE National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) said indigenous groups withdrew their consent for three hydroelectric plants run by Aboitiz Power Corp. unit Hedcor in Bakun, Benguet in a dispute ...

Hedcor Inc., a leading run-of-river hydropower company in the Philippines, has appealed to a tribe group in Bakun town in Benguet to support the company in processing their certification precondition ...

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (PIA) — Authorities in Bakun, Benguet arrested in an operation on November 4, Tuesday, two men in a vehicle carrying more than P17.7 million worth of dried marijuana leaves.

Some 35 beneficiaries in a barangay in Bakun, Benguet waived their slots in the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) to ensure that other qualified families will receive the subsidy. In a Facebook post ...

MANILA, Philippines — Aboitiz Power Corp. will stop the operations of some of its hydropower plants in Benguet amid resistance from indigenous people there. In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, the ...

The victory increases the National Tax Allotment for Ilocos Sur and Sugpon, says lawyer and former Ilocos Sur Sangguniang Panlalawigan member Pablito Sanidad,Jr. BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The Supreme ...