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City Council will request Governor Charlie Baker and Congressman William Keating to appropriate $35-million dollars in funding to increase the depth of New Bedford Harbor.

NEW BEDFORD- Mayor Jon Mitchell announced that the New Bedford Seafood industry is launching a branding campaign. The announcement came alongside officials of the Harbor Development Commission, which Mitchell also chairs, during the Seafood Throwdown tonight...

NEW BEDFORD- A Lakeville man was arrested by the New Bedford Police Department on Tuesday night for allegedly operating a boat under the influence of alcohol. Sixty-one year old Christoper Karo was attempting to dock his inflatable boat at the Pease Park Ramp in New Bedford Harbor at approximately 7:15 PM when a witness saw him showing signs of intoxication...

The author of a new report on contamination sites in New Bedford hopes the document will be used to bring different factions together to resolve those issues. The draft report, done by Conservation Law Foundation Vice-President Veronica Eady, was discussed Saturday at the Downtown Library in New Bedford...

I'm not giving up the motor home, but living life on a boat in the summer, or wherever it's warm sounds exciting.

The Hands Across The River Coalition has had no luck convincing the EPA's Regional Office to abandon its plans to bury pcb's in New Bedford Harbor. So now, the Coalition is taking its complaints to Washington. Current E-P-A plans call for the burying of toxic pcb's in so-called unlined holes or cad cells close to the Fairhaven shoreline...

City officials say New Bedford Harbor is cleaner and there are fewer "mystery oil spills," thanks to a program begun last year by the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection and the New Bedford Harbor Development Commission. The Clean Bilge Program was highlighted Thursday during a news conference on Pier 3...

The Whaling City got a visit from one of its namesakes.

The EPA's New Bedford Harbor Technical Working Group met at City Hall Tuesday to discuss the agency's progress in cleaning up the harbor.