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Free concerts are coming back to downtown New Bedford this summer. Here's who you can see this season.

Unkempt vegetation on personal property in New Bedford was apparently so out of control that in 2003 the City Council approved an ordinance about it.

Vineyard Wind received the first shipment of turbine components for its planned, 62-turbine offshore wind farm at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal last week.  The first shipment arrived Thursday, May 25. The tower sections – the base of the turbine that’s placed on top of a yellow transition piece – will be constructed at […]

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships.

In another sign that the U.S.’s ambitions to catch up and start its offshore wind power industry are finally showing progress, the first turbine compo...

The civic group, Oʻahu Water Protectors, formed in October 2021 to preserve the island’s water ...

The U.S. does not have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm, but it will soon.

Hawaiʻi’s Red Hill catastrophe and the lessons for Okinawa -- In November 2021, a fuel leak at the US Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Oʻahu Island, contaminated the drinking water for 93,000 people; one year later, 4,900 liters of concentrated PFAS firefighting foam spilled at the same base. 

Following a leak of 4,900 liters of PFAS firefighting foam concentrate at the US Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Oʻahu Island, Hawaiʻi, in November 2022, Ernie Lau, the manager and chief engineer of the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, started to demonstrate against the US military.

The civic group, Oʻahu Water Protectors, formed in October 2021 to preserve the island’s water sources and raise awareness of the risks they face, particularly from the US Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility which sits atop the island’s aquifer.