The accumulated effects of weather disturbances and huge volumes of water from a dam affected thousands of families in Cagayan, some of whom had fled to rooftops to escape two-story high floods.

In 2011, floods and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Washi, known locally as Sendong, killed more than 1,260 people in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. The disaster prompted the ...

The easterlies and Northeast Monsoon (Amihan) are expected to bring rains over several areas in the country in the next 24 hours, PAGASA said Sunday afternoon.

We will fix the flood control. We will do irrigation. We will save water so that when we are hit by drought, like now, we will have a water source.) READ: Marcos: Cagayan River flood control ...