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Barnstable's five fire districts have been awarded a $260,209 grant to help train firefighters to save each other.

No protests. No children in the schools. No effect on city services. Two children with pneumonia treated at a local hospital and paid for by the federal government.

At Tuesday's congressional briefing on marine mammal strandings, Congressmen William Keating , D-Mass., and Jared Huffman , D-Calif., spoke to approximately 80 congressional staffers and others about how crucial The John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program is for conducting important marine mammal rescue work and ... (more)

Getting federal disaster relief into the hands of those in the Northeast fishing industry is shaping up to be equal parts complexity and peril, if Wednesday's public hearing is any indication.

DNC CHAIR GOES AFTER BAKER'S RECORD: GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker's run for the corner office drew the attention of a top national Democrat Monday.

Just when Cape Wind officials thought it was safe to go back in the water, federal lawmakers have fired another, albeit largely symbolic, shot across the bow of the controversial project.

Calling him someone willing to sacrifice political advantage for principle, U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Massachusetts, endorsed his longtime friend Warren Tolman's bid to become the Democratic nominee for attorney general.

The Massachusetts congressional delegation, which has expressed misgivings about renewed US military involvement in the Iraqi conflict, is now calling on President Obama to seek congressional approval before carrying out even limited air strikes against militants.

The Energy Department has given a conditional $150 million loan to the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts in a move to fund the first offshore wind farm in the United States.

Contrary to public opinion, the biggest provider of pain pills on the streets is not the neighborhood drug dealer, Carl Alves, director of Drug Free New Bedford, said Monday.

The United States Postal Service's vice president of facilities has announced that the federal government has not changed its decision to relocate the downtown post office out of its historic 695 Pleasant St. location.

The Waterfront Grille in New Bedford will host a community conversation about opiate drug use an it's impact on the workforce on Monday.