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MATTAPOISETT - In a letter sent out to parents Monday afternoon, Old Rochester Regional High School Principal Mike Devoll & Superintendent of Schools Doug White announced the district has been investigating threats made to the student body, but did not specify what the threats are. ...

UPDATE 12:15pm - The lockdown at B.M.C Durfee has been lifted. The school day resumed as scheduled shortly before noon after a search of the school by law enforcement. The lockdown was prompted by a social media post that purported to show a possible student holding a gun...

MassDOT and the MBTA held their final public meeting regarding future plans for South Coast Rail in Middleborough Thursday evening.

Just weeks before registered voters take to the polls to decide the legalization of recreational marijuana, the New Bedford City Council is taking a preemptive approach in banning the substance in public areas across the city.

A New Bedford Public School bus was involved in a minor accident this morning. School spokesman Jon Carvalho tells WBSM News that Bus #55 for Normandin Middle School was involved in what sounded like a minor fender-bender in the area of Ashley Boulevard and Tarkiln Hill Road in the North End around 7:30 this morning...

The first of five meetings regarding plans for a future South Coast Rail project took place at Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech High School Wednesday evening before a crowd of nearly 70 people.

The mother of a student at Hayden-McFadden School in New Bedford has hired a lawyer after she says her daughter was stabbed with a hypodermic needle on school grounds. The claim stems from an incident on August 22, when Michelle Farland's six-year-old daughter came home from school and told her mother another child had poked her in the hand with a needle allegedly found on the playground earlier t

Plans for New Bedford's first dog park have been finalized, and the public has a chance to see and discuss them Tuesday night. Naomi Carney, chair of the City Council's Dog Park Committee, tells WBSM News the project has been moving quickly since the City received a $244,000 grant from the Stanton Foundation...

New Bedford Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin is defending her administration after comments regarding student behavioral issues in public schools. Speaking on WBSM's "Barry Richard Show," Durkin responded to allegations of secrecy in regards to violence in the schools...

For nearly seven hours Wednesday, state representatives debated the so-called "bathroom bill." The bill passed by a 116-36 margin, and would ban discrimination of individuals who use a public facility such as a bathroom or a locker room based on what gender they identify as...