The Latest Breaking News from New Bedford

Fall River police entered vague, nonsensical reasons for Flock searches

The use of Flock license-plate cameras has raised concerns about oversight and accountability in some Massachusetts cities

The Independent UK · Oct 8

ICE Operation Detains 34+ Latinos in Massachusetts Coast as Tracking Blackout Leaves Families Searching

ICE detained 34+ people across New Bedford, Fall River & Dartmouth as a new federal blackout blocks families from locating arrested loved ones.

Latin Times · Sep 25

To bring back historic herring populations, volunteers get down and dirty

Wampanoag tribal member and land manager Marcus Hendricks has been leading cleanups of the Acushnet River in Massachusetts to help herring swim upstream to their spawning grounds

The Independent UK · Sep 10

More than $113,000 of rare Pokémon cards stolen in Massachusetts break-in

Owners of 1st Edition Collectibles in New Bedford say suspect broke in to courtyard and smashed window in door

The Guardian - US · Jul 12, 2025

Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the puzzle?

The Conversation · Apr 4, 2025

Wreck of French steamship that sunk in 1856 discovered off New England coast

A marine salvage firm has found the wreck of a long lost French steamship about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts

The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2024

The weaknesses of catch share policies

"Blue Harvest’s rise and fall is the result of a fisheries management structure called catch shares"

Salon · Nov 30, 2023

An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later

There are overdue library books. Then there's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity, which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.

WEKU · Jul 8, 2023

Extremely overdue book returned to Massachusetts library 119 years later

A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of a book more than a century after it was last checked out

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2023

Once a whaling port, New Bedford wants to light the world again, with wind

The vessel UHF Felicity pulled into the port of New Bedford shortly before 5:00 Wednesday afternoon carrying massive parts for offshore wind turbines

The Independent UK · May 24, 2023