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NEW BEDFORD - The City Council decided it was not their role to try and decide who should be the city's new harbormaster during Thursday's meeting at City Hall.

A Lakeville man has been arrested after allegedly operating a boat while drunk and assaulting a public employee. New Bedford Police say they received a call from the Fairhaven Harbormaster Thursday night, who said a small fishing vessel headed north towards the hurricane barrier did not have his running lights on and was failing to stop...

Fairhaven Police and the Harbormaster are investigating after a speedboat accidentally launched two occupants from the deck. The Harbormaster says the boat caught a wave at a bad angle, causing the man and woman to go overboard. The Harbormaster says speed may have been a factor...

Another boat has been illegally dumped in the woods on the SouthCoast, this time on the Middleborough/Wareham town line.

An illegally discarded boat that caused havoc for local authorities last month has once again appeared in a Facebook post by the Wareham Harbormaster Department.

Fairhaven Harbormaster Tim Cox is scratching his head after a sailboat was found washed ashore on West Island. The sailboat was discovered Wednesday by a resident walking on the beach behind the island's state reservation. Cox says the 25-foot boat likely drifted over from Falmouth after breaking loose of it's moorings during one of the recent winter storms...

An oil spill in the Fairhaven Shipyard has been contained. Fairhaven Deputy Fire Chief Todd Correia tells WBSM News the spill was reported Tuesday morning, and was quite extensive. "Most of the oil slicks and oil things that we find in the harbor are usually uncollectable, meaning the fact that it's a small sheen on top of it and we allow Mother Nature to kind of let the sun evaporate it... R

The new Harbormaster for the Port of New Bedford is a Cape Cod native and graduate of Mass. Maritime Academy who's spent ten years working on the ocean. David Condon says he's been given a warm welcome on New Bedford's waterfront during his first month on the job...

The City Council appointed a Cape Cod native as the city's first harbormaster since 2012 with an 8-3 vote Thursday night.

Mayor Jon Mitchell and the Harbor Development Commission have named a new Harbormaster.