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A Thursday morning power outage in Acushnet appears to have been caused by a tree.

The Massachusetts Department of Energy and Environmental Affairs (MassDEP) wants you to give a gift to the earth this holiday season - recycle your tree! If you purchased a live tree this year, simply discarding it on the sidewalk is not only wasting a valuable resource, but a create a disposal problem If all the cut trees sold in Massachusetts this holiday season were packed tightly together on t

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in downtown New Bedford after the annual tree lighting ceremony Saturday evening.

Before you go nuts decorating your Christmas Tree, we wanted to let you know about some strange decorations you may want to add to your collection this year.  The fine folks at the Fall River Historical Society let us peak through their gift shop's assortment of holiday decorations and explained a few of the ornaments that had us scratching our heads.

I love learning about history. Especially when that history exists right in our own backyard. I was at DnB Burgers in Downtown New Bedford recently, and found out that building that it's located in, has quite an interesting feature. A tree growing through the building.

Year after year, my favorite part of the holidays has always been the Christmas tree. With the pine tree smell filling my house, shiny ornaments, and bright lights, what's not to love? For my whole life, I've always had a real tree. I refuse to have a fake...

If you've been around the New Bedford area for very long, there's a chance you've seen the Christmas tree that hangs upside down in front of a home on Wood Street in the city.

It's fast approaching. Stores are decorated and the cold weather is creeping in! For me, my Christmas tree goes up one week after turkey day. For YEARS I have insisted on a real tree, but for the past three seasons I've made the switch and gone to the pre-lit fake ones.