The capital of Batanes Province is Basco and is under Region II which is 860 kilometers north of Manila. Basco is on Batan Island. Batanes is the only province in the Philippines declared in its ...

Signal No. 3 has been hoisted over Batanes and the eastern portion of Babuyan Islands as Typhoon Leon continued to pick up strength as it moves west northwestward over the Philippine Sea ...

Mavulis is an inhabited island in Batanes, the country’s northernmost province, which is closest to Taiwan. In 2019, the military built a concrete shelter on Mavulis to provide refuge to ...