cleanup

A small oil spill in New Bedford Harbor this morning has been contained.

A parcel of land along New Bedford's waterfront will undergo an environmental cleanup beginning next week.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its initial list of Superfund National Priorities List sites with the greatest expected redevelopment and commercial potential on Wednesday, and New Bedford Harbor was among the 31 sites listed.

With so many people complaining on social media about plow drivers and the job they've done cleaning up from the blizzard, one local town official had this hilariously sarcastic response to the detractors.

A serious rollover crash on Route 195 Thursday afternoon led to a portion of the highway being closed down, and it likely will not reopen until sometime Friday.

NEW BEDFORD - The City Council voted to send a loan request of $6,499,000 by Mayor Jon Mitchell for environmental cleanup projects to the Committee on Finance during Thursday's meeting for further discussion.

NEW BEDFORD - Environmental justice experts believe the current political climate in Massachusetts makes this a perfect time to embark on positive changes.

The Environmental Protection Agency is changing its plans to dispose of contaminated sediment from New Bedford's harbor cleanup along the shoreline.

State agencies and municipalities are reporting estimates of about $9 million in cleanup costs for the January snow storm.

Gov. Charlie Baker says he wrestled with whether to institute a travel ban during this week's blizzard, but says it ultimately ``worked pretty much as we hoped'' it would.