A veteran correctional officer is suing the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Paul Heroux alleging employment discrimination and retaliation.   The ...

A Bristol County Superior Court judge has denied a request to reconsider its decision earlier this year that tossed most of a sexual harassment lawsuit by a Fall River Public ...

The Fall River Police Department projects that it spent about $2.8 million on overtime in Fiscal 2026, which ended June 30.   The total includes payments to officers who ...

One SouthCoast Chamber has selected Anthony F. Cordeiro as the recipient of the Roger Valcourt Outstanding Citizen Award, which will be presented during an awards dinner on Sept. ...

The price of gas in Massachusetts is climbing.    The average cost for regular is four-dollars-13-cents a gallon.  That's ten-cents more than a week ...

 A man was arrested after a police K9 helped investigators discover illegal drugs he allegedly stored inside his former Fall River home last week.   In 2018, Justin ...

One person was killed in a crash on I-195 in Westport on Monday afternoon, according to state police.   Troopers responded to I-195 westbound near Exit 16 shortly before ...

Republicans are gaining ground across southeastern Massachusetts.  In 2024, President Trump made some of his strongest statewide gains in Bristol and Plymouth counties.  ...

When he started patrol work over 20 years ago, Fall River Deputy Chief of Police Barden Castro said, a generic eyewitness account of a crime — “a green car left the ...

Fall River city councilors asked the city’s legal department to develop a list of possible ordinances to limit billboards.   The city council’s Committee on ...

There’s no better time to be developer with an eye and an appetite for the Fall River waterfront — now a rolling green space — but soon to be transformed into a ...

The town’s Zoning Board of Appeals appeared to get bogged down by legal definitions and scientific concepts causing them to stall their decision-making when it came to Salt ...