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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Luis Abinader honored 14 outstanding members of the Dominican diaspora during an official ceremony held at Lehman College’s Lovinger Theatre in New York, recognizing their professional ...

The family of Juan Carlos Avila Espaillat, the 28-year-old former Bávaro lifeguard who joined Russian military forces fighting in Ukraine and had been reporting on the experience until being sent to ...