The New Bedford Health Department—working closely with the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health—is again this year conducting an annual monitoring program to track the potential threat from EEE and WNV carrying mosquitoes. Under the program, mosquito traps are put in place to collect …

Police have arrested Joel Lopez, 16, of Fall River. He is charged with murder and may be arraigned this afternoon in Fall River District Court. He was arrested this afternoon inside an apartment on Pleasant Street in Fall River. Fall River Police, Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to this office, …

Governor Charlie Baker on July 8, 2016 signed compromise legislation, An Act relative to transgender anti-discrimination (S. 2407), to extend protections against discrimination for gender identity to any place of public accommodation, with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) adopting regulations or policies to enforce its provisions. The bill, passed …

Mayor Jon Mitchell has announced that the City of New Bedford will again present a series of free evening concerts on City Pier 3 on the waterfront, as well as during lunchtime in Custom House Square during the months of July and August. This is the fourth consecutive summer that …

Everyone in Bristol County correctional facilities who needs education and information on the dangers of opioid addiction will get it, regardless if they’re here for two days or two years. That’s thanks in part to the awarding of a grant worth almost $250,000 earlier this year that kicks into high …

Shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday, July 2, State Police Communications received a 911 call from a person who said a family member – a 25-year-old woman – was reporting to her family and a friend that she was a passenger in an Uber vehicle and was being sexually assaulted and …

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced that a 56-year-old Fall River man has been indicted for murdering his mother and neglecting his disabled siblings. Antonio M. Branco of 77 Holden Street, was indicted by a Bristol County Grand Jury last Friday on charges of murder, assault and …

The New Bedford Health Department–working closely with the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health—is again this year conducting an annual monitoring program to track the potential threat from EEE and WNV carrying mosquitoes. Under the program, mosquito traps are put in place to collect …

This morning at approximately 1:40 a.m. the State Police Barracks in Bourne was contacted by Air Force security reporting that a vehicle with Rhode Island registration had failed to stop at the Bourne gate to the Otis Air National Guard Base. The vehicle speed off and turned down Estey Road …