Fish Island

New Bedford Police rescued a fisherman from freezing water near Fish Island after he fell between boats. Officers used teamwork to pull him from the harbor and rush him to the hospital.

A New Bedford cold storage company has paid nearly $200,000 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to settle claims that it violated federal safety laws relating to handling hazardous chemicals — namely, ammonia.

Firefighters and other state and local crews spent hours on Friday morning cleaning up a fuel spill from a fishing boat in New Bedford harbor.