safety

The car seat may look like a comfy place for your baby to hang out, but it can be more dangerous to your child than you may know.

Six candidates running for a seat on the New Bedford School Committee discussed a variety of issues during a debate Wednesday evening at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

We've all seen scooters zipping around city streets, and they can sometimes cause an unsafe environment for other drivers. This is why the New Bedford City Council is looking for state legislators to step in and create new laws that treat scooter operators the same as anyone riding a motorcycle.

In the wake of the deadly school shooting in oregon on Thursday many residents became concerned about a similar event occurring here on the Southcoast, perhaps at UMass Dartmouth.

A “Sobriety Checkpoint” will be operating in Bristol County this weekend.

Hundreds of people attended the first of many informational meetings regarding the expansion of Eversource's liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility, located on Peckham Rd., Wednesday evening at Ford Middle School.

Kraft is recalling 36-thousand cases of its single-wrapped American cheese slices due to possible choking hazards.

The 101st Feast of the Blessed Sacrament begins Thursday evening, and Mayor Jon Mitchell says the celebration should be one of the safest yet. Speaking on his weekly radio program, Mitchell says the City and the Feast Committee have added additional police officers both on and off of the feast grounds...

Derrick Johns was vacationing on Nantucket with his wife and their 16-year-old daughter, Erynn, this week. They went for a swim that took a dangerous turn as the rip current pulled them out to sea. It was so strong that they couldn't swim back to shore, and were greatly fatigued from trying...

There has been a renewed focus on the call for cameras in Harrington Park following the death of 19-year-old Marcelo Jean Francois who was shot and killed in the park last month.