Rep. Bellaflor Angara Castillo (LDP, Aurora) has been elected new House majority floor leader, the first lady to assume that top post in the history of the country's legislature. click here to read the full story»

Raise your hands, whoever knows where the province of Aurora is. Yes, there's a straggle of film buffs who know that the movie "Apocalypse Now" was set in Baler. And yes, there are backpacking surfers who also know what "tubes" and "barrels" are have been to the annual surfing competitions at Cemento Beach. Rounding up this esoteric group of people knowledgeable about Aurora are mountaineers who've crossed the Sierra Madre, Lambanog (coconut wine) enthusiasts, and retired communists who used to hike up the mountains to take refuge from Marcos' minions. Otherwise, everybody is clueless. click here to read the full story»

Roughly six hundred years ago, in the vastness of the flora that shaped the landscape created by the unseen hands of bathala, a new birth came, destined to strike an impact on the land that gave it life. click here to read the full story»

A new machine, made by a Filipino Engineer, is bound to revive Aurora province's vanishing sabutan industry and boost the advantages of some 10,000 weavers, mostly peasant women, in the export market. click here to read the full story»