A faster, cleaner train route to Boston is still on the drawing board — but the state hasn’t funded it and isn’t talking about it.
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Opinion: Lessons from winter storms and arctic cold
Eversource presidents: The value proposition for customers: strategic, cost-effective investments deliver real benefits to families, businesses and the economy.
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Bristol County sheriff restricting information-sharing with ICE
Sheriff Paul Heroux criticizes the federal government’s increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.
Posted inOffshore Wind
Our offshore wind tracker: What’s new with wind projects off Massachusetts and beyond?
Offshore wind is changing fast. Here’s our tracker, first published in April 2025, and the latest on where the Northeast’s wind projects stand as of Feb. 2, 2026.
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Judge vacates order giving custody of U.S. citizen, 8, to Guatemalan father with criminal charges
The 8-year-old New Bedford girl will stay in Massachusetts, after revelations that her father faced cocaine trafficking and assault charges before his deportation.
Posted inImmigration
Biological father granted custody of girl, 8, has extensive criminal charges, records show
The child, a U.S. citizen and New Bedford resident, is scheduled to be sent to Guatemala Feb. 5 to live with a father who has been charged with cocaine trafficking and assault with a deadly weapon.
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Vineyard Wind’s final turbine tower heads out of New Bedford port
It’s been more than two years of stops and starts, but the project is in the home stretch now that a federal court lifted a recent Trump suspension.
Posted inPolice and Courts
State Rep. Markey says he’s throwing his hat in the ring for Bristol County DA
Christopher M. Markey shared his plans in an interview with The Light, two days after incumbent District Attorney Thomas Quinn III said he would not seek reelection.
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Bristol County DA Quinn will not seek reelection
Thomas Quinn III’s decision leaves only one candidate in the 2026 race, Republican Seth Aitken.
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New Bedford officer may face unpaid suspension in excessive force case
The department has sustained six policy violations against William Mouyos, including use of excessive force and not activating his body camera in an incident involving a juvenile on a scooter.