Vineyard Wind

The country's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm project has started laying cable offshore from its New Bedford operations base — even as two other large-scale wind projects in the state have pressed pause.

Gov. Charlie Baker and some of his top deputies joined lawmakers from southeastern Massachusetts and officials from Vineyard Wind's parent company Avangrid to celebrate plans to establish the state's first offshore wind industry manufacturing facility at Brayton Point in Somerset.

Final contracts with Vineyard Wind and Mayflower Wind are supposed to be submitted for Department of Public Utilities approval by April 27, 2022.

The North Atlantic right whale population has shrunk by 30 percent over the last decade, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium announced Monday.

Two developers vying for the state's third offshore wind farm are each promising economic investment — Mayflower Wind in Fall River and now Vineyard Wind in Salem.

If its bid is selected as the third offshore wind farm in the state, Mayflower Wind plans to set up operations in Fall River and spend up to $81 million on economic development programs on the SouthCoast.

The $2.3 billion Vineyard Wind project off the Nantucket coast can officially begin, as the company announced its financial close today.

Fishermen from New Bedford and Fairhaven are among those in a coalition of commercial fisheries suing the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management over its approval of the Vineyard Wind project.

Is it wrong to root against the home team? Because I hope against hope all of this falls through. Windmills in the ocean are an eyesore, among other issues.

With the addition of offshore wind, New Bedford is set to elevate its robust port economy to global heights and once again be the city that lights the world.