BASCO, Philippines – U.S. Army divers with the 7th Engineer Dive Detachment, 84th Engineer Battalion, 130th Engineer Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command participated in the closing ceremony of ...

BATANES, Philippines – U.S. Soldiers assigned to 8th Forward Resuscitative and Surgical Detachment, 18th Medical Command, conducted two subject matter expert exchanges alongside healthcare ...

BASCO, Batanes, Philippines — Filipino and American troops will train to defend an island province facing Taiwan from potential aggressors as part of the biggest-ever “Balikatan” (shoulder-to-shoulder ...

A fire broke out at Basco Central School in Basco, Batanes on Sunday, March 16, 2025. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Batanes said the fire was reported at around 12:42 p.m. Strong winds made it ...

CLARK FREEPORT – Philippine Airlines (PAL) will resume flights from Clark International Airport (CRK) to scenic Basco, Batanes and vice versa starting July 2, 2024. PAL said that the route will ...

BASCO, Batanes (PIA) — In celebration of Farmers’ and Fisherfolk Month, more than 300 volunteers participated in a large-scale coastal clean-up across key areas in Basco, Batanes. The initiative was ...

Business owners and vendors in Batanes now accept payments through a Quick Response (QR) code following the launch of LANDBANK’s Cash-Lite Batanes initiative, designed to transform the province into a ...

MANILA, Philippines — An 82-year-old man returning to Batanes from Bacoor, Cavite became the province’s third case of COVID-19, a month after it was cleared of the disease. The provincial government ...

MANILA, Philippines — More than a hundred naval reservists will be deployed to Batanes following Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.’s order to increase personnel in the country’s northernmost ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Basco, Batanes early Saturday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said. The quake which hit at 12:44 a.m. is tectonic in origin ...

ITBAYAT, Batanes, Philippines — A year and a half since the coronavirus pandemic struck, the island province of Batanes recorded its first fatality to the dreaded disease. The 70-year-old man from the ...

MANILA, Philippines — State weather bureau PAGASA lifted storm warning signal in Batanes as Typhoon Liwayway (Lingling) started to move away. But residents of Batanes and Babuyan Group of Islands may ...