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Fairhaven Harbormaster Tim Cox is scratching his head after a sailboat was found washed ashore on West Island. The sailboat was discovered Wednesday by a resident walking on the beach behind the island's state reservation. Cox says the 25-foot boat likely drifted over from Falmouth after breaking loose of it's moorings during one of the recent winter storms...

There won't be any fishing piers off of West Island's causeway, and many Fairhaven residents are happy to hear it. After hearing opposition from locals on Monday, the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen voted to withdraw their support for the state-run project to build fishing piers on both sides of the causeway...

People looking forward to fishing off of new piers to be built on Fairhaven's West Island might not get the chance. The state-funded project would put fishing piers on both side of West Island's causeway, along with larger sidewalks with handicap accessiblility...

Beach-goers beware. Fairhaven Police say they've received at least one report of a woman trying to scam people out of money by pretending to collect beach fees. Fairhaven Police Sergeant Kevin Kobza says a report filed with police Monday alleges a middle-aged woman attempted to charge beach-goers $45 per car...

Fairhaven is planning for the worst this hurricane season.

Mattapoisett Police and the town Harbormaster team up to pull a man from the water after his small boat sank. Police say the incident happened just after 4pm Monday afternoon, in waters between West Island and Mattapoisett. Police say the man was from New Bedford...

UPDATE 6:48 - There are now reports of two earthquakes striking the Southcoast within minutes of each other. The first quake is reported by the United States Geological Survey as a M2.4 earthquake, originating at 5:46pm 1.5 miles SSW of New Bedford...

The 12 day search for Dana Dourdeville has been called off after a body was found washed ashore earlier today in Falmouth, Ma. A source close to the Dourdeville family,Old Rochester Athletic Director Bill Tilden, confirms the body has been identified as 21-year-old Dana Dourdeville of Marion...

Another search using underwater sonar equipment has failed to turn up any sign of 21-year-old Marion resident Dana Dourdeville, who has been missing since going duck hunting off West Island in Fairhaven on New Year's Eve. Friday's search was carried out by New Bedford Police using two side-scan sonar devices, which were towed behind the police department's boat...

The search continued in waters off Fairhaven Wednesday for a missing Brown University student from Marion, who failed to return home from a duck hunting trip on December 31st. WBSM's Taylor Cormier climbed aboard an aircraft to get an airborne view of the search...