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This spring, rainwater collection barrels offered by The Great American Rain Barrel Company will be available for residents of New Bedford.

A vehicle drove off West Rodney French Boulevard and into the waters off West Beach. The 24-year-old driver was rescued and the car extracted from the water.

Ten Massachusetts communities, including New Bedford and Wareham, are sharing nearly $400,000 in state grants to improve drinking water or improve wastewater treatment facilities.

Wednesday classes have been canceled at B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River after a pipe burst early this morning.

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell testified before a Congressional subcommittee Tuesday in Washington, DC that Congress should consider amending the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, while the statute is under consideration for reauthorization.

State Treasurer Deb Goldberg, Chair of the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust, announced today more than $7.6 million in loan principal forgiveness for 24 projects in 18 communities statewide, including three SouthCoast communities.

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford municipal employee was one of 30 people arrested during "Operation Stop the Flow." Providence Police, in conjunction with law enforcement agencies in southeastern Massachusetts, arrested 30 individuals they say had been distributing heroin and fentanyl through Rhode Island and the Southcoast...

NEW BEDFORD - Say goodbye to something of a landmark in New Bedford. The water tank at the former Building #19 site on Hathaway Road was dismantled this morning. For decades, the water tank served as a sort of billboard for the discount store, featuring many of the beloved cartoons that have become associated with Building #19 and its founder, Jerry Ellis...

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has been testing the water in New Bedford schools as part of a volunary program, and the results are in. A small number of samples came back with some contaminates, but neither school officials or the DEP are concerned...

WAREHAM - Saturday night, Wareham emergency personnel were called to the area of Broad Cove for a vehicle submerged about 50 to 75 feet from the shore. Wareham Police say there were two people in the car at the time it plunged into the water, with both occupants now on shore...