Tests have confirmed that six swans found dead in Swansea were positive for a highly contagious strain of bird flu that has been killing birds in recurring nationwide outbreaks since last year.
Southcoast Health clinics in Dartmouth, Fall River, and Wareham are now offering the COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccines updated for better protection against the Omicron variant of the virus, the health group announced Thursday.
School boards in New Bedford and Dartmouth decided kids need to wear masks in school to protect themselves from COVID, when it should be the parents' call.
The walls are closing in on those who opted out of the COVID-19 vaccinations. The government says the Delta variant is spreading rapidly, and it's your fault.
Somerset Town Administrator Richard Brown is urging residents to wear masks in public spaces indoors following yesterday's new CDC guidelines recommending the measure in areas with high or substantial risk of COVID-19 transmission.
The biggest little state in the union is about to become a free state. Gov. Dan McKee says Rhode Island will fully reopen Friday, a week earlier than planned.