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Two people have been hospitalized and three animals are dead in a case of mercury poisoning in a Fall River apartment building.

Georgia Senator Richard Russell has a building in the Senate complex named after him, but there is a bipartisan effort to rename it for Sen. John McCain.

An Acushnet woman faces charges are she struck a parked vehicle, a building and almost struck a group of people in a religious procession in New Bedford.

NEW BEDFORD - Firefighters battled a structure fire at the site of the former Building #19 on Hathaway Road in New Bedford Friday morning. The fire was reported shortly after 8:30 a.m. in one of the remaining structures at 19 Hathaway Road...

NEW BEDFORD - The special election for the Ward Three City Council seat in New Bedford is just days away. Candidates Bethany Fauteux and Hugh Dunn met in WBSM's studios for a live discussion Thursday night on issues pertaining to the ward and the city...

NEW BEDFORD - The Building #19 property on Hathaway Road in New Bedford has a new owner and the existing structures may soon be leveled. Washburn Realty, LLC purchased the property from 19 Hathaway Road, Second Trust, at the beginning of the new year...

Fire crews are on scene at a fire at 17 Swifts Rd. in Dartmouth.

Fairhaven residents packed into the town hall auditorium Tuesday night to talk about the Rogers School. A number of town officials along with members of the consulting firm hired to analyze the property, Kirk and Company, took suggestions from the crowd and answered questions...

A fire at a homeless encampment in New Bedford could have been a lot worse than it was. New Bedford firefighters responded to reports of a fire behind the former Building #19 along Rt. 140 Wednesday afternoon. Upon arrival, firefighters found one of the makeshift shelters had caught fire from a homemade furnace that was being used to warm several lean-tos...

BOSTON (AP) — A landlord who owns and operates dozens of properties in New Bedford will pay $100,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations he allowed contractors to perform illegal asbestos work on four homes he was renovating. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says the consent judgment entered Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court settles a lawsuit filed by her office in October 2012 a