The Abinader administration has submitted the nation’s first two-trillion-peso budget for the 2027 fiscal year. The budget features RD$364.3 billion for public education, RD$197.7 billion for public ...

There is no official death penalty in the Dominican Republic. But lately, deaths of citizens shot by the Police have been on the rise. The media revealed the code number “29” for those who are marked ...

DR1 News will not be updated on Thursday, 24 September 2026 because it is a national holiday. The news for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be compiled for the Monday, 28 September ...

President Luis Abinader called for the UN delivering on its commitment for peace-keeping operations. “Today, transnational criminal networks control territories, they traffic arms and people, and they ...

An 11-year-old girl has died not recovering from a fall from a mechanical ride during the patron saint festivities in Hato Mayor del Rey, the Dr. Hugo Mendoza Pediatric Hospital in Santo Domingo ...

The US Southern Command (Southcom) reported on an operation of the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-South) on Monday, 21 September 2026 whereby forces of the United States, the Dominican ...

The Public Prosecution Office launched a major sweep dubbed Operation Cobra 2.0-A, arresting at least 28 people in an ongoing clampdown against a sprawling administrative corruption network accused of ...

During the early morning hours of 21 September 2026, merengue artist and businessman Gilberto Julian Sarante Perdomo, widely known as Julian Oro Duro (58), was violently assaulted inside his home in ...

Major forest fires have engulfed the Sierra de Bahoruco, putting at risk a major Caribbean biodiversity reserve area. Emergency crews and specialized brigades have been battling to control a major ...

A 23-year-old suspect sought in connection with the fatal home invasion that left the wife of merengue star Julián Oro Duro dead and the singer with severe head trauma turned himself in to authorities ...

The Ministry of Environment is evaluating the creating of a Biosphere Reserve across the Cordillera Septentrional (Northern Mountain Range). The effort began with a working roundtable convening ...

Carlos Manuel Sanchez, of the Dominican Committee of Human Rights, warns Dominicans to not fall for offers for jobs in Russia. He says he has received several complaints that young people have been ...