Emergency Management

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts is sending a team of medical professionals to help with hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. The state Emergency Management Agency says the 26-person team from Massachusetts General Hospital will deploy Saturday and work on the Caribbean island for about 16 days...

With temperatures dipping into the teens, New Bedford's Emergency Overflow Shelter opened Tuesday night at the PAACA headquarters on Coggeshall Street. Emergency Management Director Mark Mahoney tells WBSM News, the decision was made Tuesday afternoon to open the shelter...