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Necco Wafers and Sweethearts are no longer being made in Massachusetts.

SOMERSET - Consistently one of the state's largest polluters, Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset is powering down for the last time tonight. According to the Herald News, the 1,488 megawatt plant will be taken offline at midnight tonight...

A fish-processing plant is calling it quits in New Bedford. According to bizjournal.com, High Liner Foods, Inc., on Herman Melville Boulevard will begin cutting the 200 jobs housed there in late April, with the plant closing in September...

On Monday afternoon, a worker was injured and taken to the hospital at the Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage Company in Westport.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a New Bedford fish processing plant for seven serious safety violations. OSHA began investigating the operations at Sea Watch International Ltd. after a 35-year-old sanitation supervisor died in January after he was caught in the rotating parts of the shucking machine he was cleaning...

The immigrant community is speaking out, trying to get local employers to improve and abide by safety regulations in the workplace. In response to deaths and injuries in industrial settings, the Community Workers Center of New Bedford is launching a new campaign to get employers to sign a "Code of Conduct"...

The maker of Twinkies is going out of business, and lots of shoppers are unhappy.

It's nothing new. In fact, it wasn't a front page story in the fishing port of New Bedford. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined some local seafood processing plants, some for hiring illegal employees!