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Fairhaven residents impacted by the forthcoming blizzard can utilize the Hastings Middle School as an emergency shelter beginning at 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Guests can start arriving at 6 p.m. with an 8:45 p.m. cutoff time.

The emergency overflow shelter at the Sister Rose House in New Bedford will be opening tonight to shield people from the elements.

We passively watch a lot of great police and fire scanner calls get posted online, but these totally, 100% calls deserve to be written about.

NB Airport Landing Emergency https://t.co/vNhQ17SxNG — Southern Mass Alerts (@metro_notify) May 31, 2017 NEW BEDFORD - A small engine plane has made a safe landing at New Bedford Regional Airport after reporting engine trouble this afternoon. ...

NEW BEDFORD - Firefighters battled a structure fire at the site of the former Building #19 on Hathaway Road in New Bedford Friday morning. The fire was reported shortly after 8:30 a.m. in one of the remaining structures at 19 Hathaway Road...

DARTMOUTH - Dartmouth emergency crews were called to the scene of a serious crash in the vicinity of 413 Cross Road Monday night. The crash took place just west of Faunce Corner Road around 9 p.m. as a 2014 Ford F350 apparently lost control, crashing through a telephone pole and colliding with a stone wall, coming to rest on it's roof...

The proposed South End Public Safety Center in New Bedford moved one step closer to becoming a reality on Friday with the announcement that the city has retained the award-winning Galante Architecture Studio to lead the study, design and construction of the facility...

UPDATE (7:50 AM) - Both accidents on Rt. 140 northbound at Exit 5 have been cleared. No serious injuries have been reported. An additional rollover occurred in the southbound lanes near Exit 5 earlier this morning, as well. No serious injuries resulted from that accident, either...

A major car fire is being reported on Interstate 195 East in Dartmouth this morning. State Police tell WBSM News the fire was reported before 8:30 Wednesday morning. The mishap has prompted officials to shut down all eastbound travel lanes between exits 10 and 11 as emergency crews bring the scene under control...