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Watch your head next time you enter New Bedford City Hall. Scaffolding has been set up around the entrance to the 158-year-old building, as city workers begin to clean and restore the brownstone exterior. On Wednesday, workers removed the header above the main door, and Mayor Jon Mitchell is pleased with the results thus far...

The tree outside New Bedford City Hall was covered with pink lights Tuesday night symbolizing the ongoing effort to end domestic violence. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Women's Center Director Pamela Macleod-Lima is hoping the message is sinking in...

A significant display at City Hall in New Bedford had been vandalized earlier this month according to Mayor Jon Mitchell. Speaking on his weekly radio program, Mitchell confirmed the domestic violence awareness display in front of City Hall, which consists of a tree strung with decorative lights, had been tampered with...

The New Bedford City Council honored dozens of Vietnam veterans outside City Hall Thursday evening.

The Women's Center of New Bedford has once again orchestrated a month of events to raise awareness of domestic violence. October is the setting for domestic violence awareness, and in Massachusetts 14 people this year have died as a result of domestic abuse incidents...

A news conference Wednesday focusing on the importance of people signing up for the state's "Health Connector" insurance program began with an apology.... Jean Yang, the director of the Health Connector program, is promising a far more workable website this year, but it won't be perfect...

A criminal investigation is underway involving the City of Fall River and a New Bedford business. According to the Herald News, 22 windows were installed last summer on the sixth floor of One Government Center in Fall River, and no one seems to know who authorized the work...

Vietnam Veterans will be honored next week in New Bedford. The City Council will present so-called "Challenge Coins" to members of Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 499 during a 5:30pm ceremony next Thursday outside City Hall. Council President Joseph Lopes tells WBSM News, the ceremony will serve as a symbolic welcome home...

Last week, Mayor Jon Mitchell endorsed Democrat Martha Coakley for Governor of Massachusetts. On Thursday, the Mayor met at City Hall with the Republican nominee for Governor, Charlie Baker. According to the Mayor, Baker asked for the meeting...

Roughly 100 people gathered on the steps of New Bedford City Hall Monday morning for a ceremony observing the 13th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The ceremony included military veterans like New Bedford Veterans Agent Chris Gomes who lost his right leg fighting in the Iraq war...