Plymouth County

A massive four-alarm fire has broken out at Brockton Hospital on Tuesday morning as crews from multiple municipalities are battling the blaze.

With the wet weather that has made local swamps even swampier, the Plymouth County Mosquito Control Project has announced a plan to get ahead of what could be a heavy mosquito season here on the SouthCoast. Aerial spraying is scheduled to start Thursday night, April 14, from the skies above Mattapoisett. Nor...

MIDDLEBOROUGH — The first human case of eastern equine encephalitis has been reported in Middleborough. According to a Facebook post from the Middleborough Town Manager account, posted at 2:50 p.m. today, the town was informed this afternoon from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health “that a human case of EEE/WEST NILE has been reported in Middleborough...

There are now 164 confirmed and presumptive cases in Massachusetts, including one in Bristol County and one in Plymouth County.

In response to the confirmed human case of EEE in southern Plymouth County, the Town of Marion is closing all town owned property until further notice.

Aerial spraying is happening this weekend in Bristol and Plymouth Counties.

Authorities have identified a pedestrian who was hit and killed by a train in Middleborough this week.

A Wareham man who was first to be charged and convicted in Plymouth County of supplying a fatal overdose, has been sentenced to state prison.

A Wareham man is the first to be charged and convicted in Plymouth County of supplying a fatal overdose, after causing the death of a 25-year-old Wareham woman.

BROCKTON — A Fall River woman working as a home health care aide has been arraigned on charges she allegedly stole $27,000 from her clients, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has announced. Vanessa L. Finglas, 40, of Fall River, was indicted on by a Plymouth County Grand Jury on two counts each of larceny over $250 from a person over 60, forgery of a check, and uttering a false che