safety

Fishing can be a very dangerous business, especially for those who are new to the industry.

The New Bedford City Council are no stranger to matters of school safety, and the topic spurred over an hour of passionate discussion during Thursday night's meeting.

The New Bedford City Council will create a special committee to explore the possibility of allowing smoke shops to offer on-site consumption of tobacco products, such as cigars and hookah.

The intersections of Hathaway Road, Nauset Street and Mount Pleasant Street, also known as the Hathaway Triangle, have been a cause of concern for motorists and pedestrians alike for decades.

Children start learning at a young age. However, learning how to hold a gun for a young child is most likely not going to make it onto a parent's teaching bucket list.

Residents from Acushnet and surrounding communities continue to voice their opposition of a proposed liquid natural gas (LNG) storage facility on Peackham Road, this time directly to the federal government.

Southcoast fire departments have received a combined $40,000 in funding to continue fire safety training. The state grants will go toward the departments' Student Awareness of Fire Education, or SAFE program, and the Senior SAFE program...

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has joined the national trend of implementing a ban on the use of hoverboards on campus due to the potential of safety hazards.

New Bedford residents now have a dedicated safe location while conducting in-person transactions on websites such as Craigslist and Facebook.

The holiday shopping season is already upon us, bringing with it sales, countless trips to the mall and a local consumer watchdog group's top picks for the worst toys in 2015.