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Should Southcoast school districts consider doing away with scheduled vacation times? With districts like New Bedford, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven already exhausting their five built-in snow days, students will likely spend extra days in the classroom into late June...

The New Bedford Educators Association has ratified a contract between the City and the teachers. Union members met for about an hour at Keith Middle School Tuesday afternoon, to hear union leaders present a tentative contract that had been negotiated over the past several weeks...

24 junior high schoolers from way up north will be visiting New Bedford this weekend. On Saturday, students, their parents, and teachers from the Anchor Lutheran Shool in Anchorage, Alaska will spend four hours in the Whaling City soaking up the culture...

A teenager on her way to school in New Bedford was robbed Thursday morning. New Bedford Police say the 15-year-old girl was walking to her bus stop on Rounds Street between Union and Arnold Streets when a man stepped out of a parked van and approached the girl from behind...

Doctors say middle school and high school classes should not start before 8:30 a.m.

Two adults and eleven juveniles will be charged in connection with the break-in and vandalism at the Keith Middle School. The school department identified the two adults as 18-year-old Roger Abreau and 20-year-old Aires Ross of New Bedford...

With school starting up for kids all across the country, there are some things parents need to think about when buying their children backpacks.

A major fundraising milestone has been reached at UMass Dartmouth. The Charlton Trust recently donated $3 million for the expansion of the Charlton School of Business on campus. The pledge was contingent on the university raising $1.5 million from other sources...

Outdoor spaces can inspire us to commit ourselves to the next generation of children.

A bit of a scare near the Decas Elementary School in Wareham this morning, after students reported to school officials saying they had seen two men walking by the school carrying a gun. Police were notified of the claims, and all precautionary measures at the school were taken, and a search of the perimeter of the Decas School was conducted...