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Nearly 2,500 Eversource customers reported power outages Monday afternoon.

Mayor Jon Mitchell and elected officials provided an update on the snow cleanup in New Bedford as well as a warning of the dangers still ahead.

On Wednesday, Eversource begins its aerial inspections of high voltage electrical equipment on rights-of-way throughout Eastern Massachusetts.

For the second time this week, a New Bedford school is evacuated due to a strange odor.

State utilities regulators have approved a nearly $37 million per year rate hike for Eversource's Massachusetts electric customers that was much smaller than requested, but still drew the ire of the state attorney general.

For the second year in a row, a Fairhaven business has been targeted in a phone-scam. Fairhaven Police Sgt. Kevin Kobza says a Route Six business last year complied with the demands of a caller who identified himself as a utility employee who threatened to shut off their power if they did not pay their bill immediately...

Both Eversource and National Grid expect all of their customers to have their power restored by Friday night at the very latest.

State officials looking to maximize the return on port investments in New Bedford and elsewhere on Tuesday released a report detailing 18 sites of interest for offshore wind energy developers, and 320 businesses that could shape a supply chain.

Eversource says they have about 500 customers in New Bedford currently affected by a power outage. Spokesman Mike Durand says they've dispatched a crew to determine the exact cause, while also working to re-route power in the meantime to lessen the number of customers affected...

Eversource reports that a little after 2 p.m., a piece of equipment near their Church Street substation in the far north end failed, causing a power outage for about 3,500 customers. Eversource restored power to 2,500 of those customers within four minutes, using automated switching equipment on their system to reroute power around the damaged equipment...