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MARTHA'S VINEYARD - The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued five people off the coast of Martha's Vineyard after their recreational boat began taking on water Thursday. In a press release, the Coast Guard says the master of the 30-foot boat Cila, based in New Bedford, radioed watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England about 3:30 p...

NEW BEDFORD - One person has been injured following a collision involving two boats outside of New Bedford Harbor. The collision took place just before 10 a.m. Wednesday near the Butler Flats Lighthouse off the coast of the city's South End...

FAIRHAVEN - A missing kayaker is found alive after his unmanned vessel was spotted Tuesday morning. Fairhaven Deputy Fire Chief Todd Correia tells WBSM News an unmanned 12-foot yellow kayak was seen floating in the waters in the outside channels beyond New Bedford and Fairhaven at 7:51 a...

NEW BEDFORD - The search for a fisherman who went missing from a New Bedford-based fishing vessel has been suspended. The U.S. Coast Guard says the 55-year-old man went missing from the fishing vessel Miss Shauna Monday afternoon 25 miles south of Montauk, New York...

Montauk, NY - The search for a fisherman who went missing from a New Bedford-based fishing vessel continues Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard says the 55-year-old man went missing from the fishing vessel Miss Shauna Monday afternoon 25 miles south of Montauk, New York...

FAIRHAVEN - Local authorities spent much of Monday morning cleaning a fuel spill in the Fairhaven Harbor. The Fairhaven Fire Department was alerted to a possible fuel spill just after 7 a.m. Monday at WJA Fisheries on 4 Water Street...

FALL RIVER - Multiple agencies searched by air and sea Thursday afternoon after a man jumped off of the Braga Bridge. Massachusetts State Police confirm that a male traveling in the westbound lanes of the bridge on I-195 stopped his vehicle on the bridge around 3 p...

BOSTON (AP) _ The U.S. Coast Guard says there was a spike last year in recreational boating deaths in New England. The Coast Guard says its 2016 Recreational Boating Statistics report finds the number of deaths rose in the region from 34 in 2015 to 55 in 2016, an increase of 62 percent...

BOSTON - The two surviving crewmembers injured in an explosion on a bulk-carrier 1,300 miles off of Cape Cod have been medevaced to Portugal. The U.S. Coast Guard in Boston says the crewmembers were airlifted from the bulk-carrier Tamar at 4:30 a...

BOSTON - An explosion on board an international bulk freighter headed for the Azores has killed two crew members. The explosion was reported at 7 .a.m. Monday on the carrier Tamar, about 1,300 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. The explosion initially killed one crewmember and severely burned three others...