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FAIRHAVEN - The company looking to turn Fairhaven's former Oxford School into affordable housing has officially submitted their application. The Town's Planning and Economic Development Director, Bill Roth, says the Stratford Group submitted the detailed application for the proposed senior housing complex this week...

Students at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School were dismissed early on Wednesday due to a “possible threat.”

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...

Customers can now sign-up online to nominate two schools in their local community to earn money through the A+ School Rewards program at Stop & Shop.

An email went out to parents of Durfee students tonight warning of the potential of a gun being brought to school on Tuesday.

An advocate for more charter schools in Massachusetts says Question Two on the November ballot is all about greater choice. If approved by voters, Question Two would lift the cap on charter schools across the state. Dr. Stephen Furtado, Executive Director at Global Learning Charter Public School in New Bedford says the demand for charter schools is extremely high...

Police arrest a New Bedford juvenile after he allegedly robbed a young man of his video game console. According to police, the victim had previously posted his video game console for sale on Facebook, and agreed to meet up with a potential buyer...

Charges are being filed against a Westport woman police say was on drugs when she crashed her car in New Bedford. Police say 32-year-old Jessica Baulier of Westport crashed her Hyundai Sonata into a tree on Robert Street near the Elizabeth Carter Brooks Elementary School around 3pm Tuesday...

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...

As students head back to school, city and state officials gathered in the South End of New Bedford on Wednesday for the ground breaking of a building that will replace for the John Hannigan Elementary School which was torn down after the school's roof collapsed in 2006.