COVID-19

Cheryl Bartlett and the New Bedford Community Health Center are part of a partnership with New Bedford to spread the word about the importance of vaccinations.

As New Bedford now leads the county with a rate of more than 365 average daily COVID cases over the past two weeks, city officials are urging residents to get the vaccine booster.

New Bedford's iconic Pa Raffa's Italian restaurant is finally offering indoor dining for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began back in March of 2020.

The toilet paper aisles in several Dartmouth and Fairhaven stores showed signs on Tuesday of being impacted by the supply chain crisis.

Organizers are preparing for the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament to return to New Bedford this year, but whether it will is still unclear as of this time.

Due to the spread of COVID-19, Southcoast Health has temporarily suspended inpatient visitation at its facilities, starting today.

For New Bedford Health Director Damon Chaplin, reducing the number of COVID case is all about getting more people vaccinated.

Southcoast hospital ICUs are at around full capacity amid the post-holiday surge in COVID-19 cases, according to one Southcoast Health doctor.

SouthCoast schools have always been prepared for teachers calling in sick, but they have never had as many teachers out sick as they had this week.

Since before Christmas, K-9s have been visiting Fairhaven Public Schools to help sniff out COVID-19.