Mayor Jon Mitchell has announced the process that will be used to hire the city’s next police chief, which will include a ...

The vacant Kempton and Taylor elementary schools are hosting visitors this week – housing developers. The city wants the buildings to become housing.

THE MONEY IN A CITY JUST REELING FROM ADDICTION. THAT’S RIGHT. DOZENS OF PEOPLE DIE FROM OPIOID RELATED OVERDOSE DEATHS EVERY SINGLE YEAR IN NEW BEDFORD, BUT THE CITY HAS HARDLY SPENT ANY OF ITS ...

Like all other Commuter Rail trips, the first train Monday morning on the MBTA’s new Fall River/New Bedford line set off with a jolt. But unlike the rest, it was followed by an unfamiliar sound for ...

Horsley Witten Group, a Sandwich-based environmental consulting firm specializing in sustainable and resilient design solutions, is partnering with Kim Lundgren Associates to update the City of New Be ...

What does the real-life city of New Bedford, Massachusetts have to do with the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington?

The Boston Globe's Spotlight team has a new podcast out that explores the role of confidential informants in the work of law enforcement. The podcast "Snitch City" focuses on the confidential ...

MassCEC's original plan had drawn local outcry from abutters who said it would not fit in with the neighbors on the city's waterfront. NEW BEDFORD — A state agency has pulled back a proposal to ...

New Bedford residents lined the steps and surrounding sidewalks in front of their City Hall to denounce immigration raids and ...

The former Jerry’s Dessert and food shop at 105 Ashley Blvd., vacant for many years, gets OK for $100,000 to develop nine ...