The dry spell has caused P367 million in agricultural damage across Eastern Visayas, affecting 14,000 hectares of rain-fed rice farms and 3,000 hectares of other crops, DA reported.
DPWH is constructing a 148.77-meter section of the Albuera-Burauen Road worth P69.729 million to improve access to markets, basic services, and livelihood opportunities in mountainous Leyte communities.
CHR Region 8 is investigating allegations that Philippine Army personnel monitored and harassed a development group and beneficiaries and used a day-care center as an encampment in Can-avid, Eastern Samar.
Salcedo’s Executive Order No. 64 regulates hog prices, pork products, and livestock movement to protect raisers and prevent ASF, but faces criticism for insufficiently considering consumer interests.
A business leader warned that prolonged heat and drought in Eastern Visayas could increase electricity and food prices as declining water levels disrupt power generation and threaten agricultural production.
Salcedo, Eastern Samar, issued Executive Order No. 64 regulating hog buying prices, pork retail prices, and livestock transportation to protect raisers, consumers, and prevent African Swine Fever.
Eastern Samar’s provincial government held a Serbisyo Caravan in Lawaan on October 28, providing health, agricultural, and social assistance services and medical kits to families in five barangays.
Eastern Samar Board Member Pol Gonzales highlighted sports’ role in youth development as guest speaker at ESSU Guiuan Campus’s 2026 Inter-Campus Meet, promoting discipline, unity, excellence, and community progress through athletics.
While Filipinos honor departed loved ones during Undas, families of desaparecidos endure unresolved grief. These victims are forcibly disappeared through state involvement, with authorities denying or concealing their fate.
Four men were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Tacloban City on October 26. Authorities seized 9.32 grams of suspected shabu worth P63,376.
Dry Spell Causes P367M Farm Damage in Eastern Visayas 
Albuera-Burauen Road Project to Improve Access in Leyte Mountain Communities 
CHR Seeks Army Explanation Over Alleged Surveillance, Harassment in Eastern Samar 
Protect Producers, But Don’t Leave Consumers Behind: Salcedo’s Hog Price Order Draws Scrutiny Over Consumer Input 
Drought, Power Shortages Threaten to Raise Utility Costs in Eastern Visayas 
Salcedo LGU issues order regulating hog, pork prices 
Eastern Samar’s Serbisyo Caravan Brings Aid to Lawaan During 61st Founding Anniversary 
Beyond the Legislative Hall | BM Pol Gonzales: Eastern Samar’s Champion for Youth in Motion 
Remembering the desaparecidos during Undas 
Four Men Arrested in Tacloban Buy-Bust; P63,376 Suspected Shabu Seized