extreme cold

Students at the East Fairhaven School, as well as Roosevelt Middle School in New Bedford, are being dismissed early due to water and heating issues at the schools.

During the recent bitter cold spell, area homes and business were damaged by water pipes freezing and bursting. Meeting House's Dartmouth campus at The Schwartz Center was one of the victims of the brutal cold. Many of the center's pipes in their sprinkler system burst due to the extreme cold, costing thousands of dollars...

With temperatures dipping into the teens, New Bedford's Emergency Overflow Shelter opened Tuesday night at the PAACA headquarters on Coggeshall Street. Emergency Management Director Mark Mahoney tells WBSM News, the decision was made Tuesday afternoon to open the shelter...

South Carolina officers did what everyone in Massachusetts wishes they could do...ARREST "The Snow Queen" Elsa for casting eternal winter on our land. The extreme cold has taken its toll on us long enough. It's time to bring an end to this tyranny...

The Superintendent of the New Bedford School District says school has been canceled on Thursday because of extreme cold temperatures. Temperatures are expected to drop to near zero tonight and early Thursday. Supterintendent Dr. Pia Durkin said in a written statement, officials decided to close the schools out of concern for children who walk to school or wait at bus stops...

Hunkering down at home rather than going to work, canceling thousands of flights and repairing burst pipes from the Midwest to the Southeast has its price. By one estimate, about $5 billion. The country may be warming up from the polar vortex, but the bone-chilling cold, snow and ice that gripped much of the country — affecting about 200 million people — brought about the biggest economic disrupti