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New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell is appealing the United States Postal Service's decision to relocate the downtown post office to a storefront instead of keeping it at it's historic location. Mitchell writes he believes the move is "unwise, short-sighted, and potentially disruptive to the strong resurgence of activity that New Bedford's downtown has enjoyed over the past several years... Read M

Some city councilors called for more security cameras downtown at Tuesday night's Public Safety Committee meeting. At-Large Councilor Debora Coelho called for the cameras in response to vandalism of the city's iconic Whaleman statue last year...

A real estate specialist with the U.S. Postal Service is looking to relocate services provided at the Downtown New Bedford Post Office on Pleasant Street. Mayor Jon Mitchell says he's "dead set" against it. Mitchell says the downtown branch is a central office, with distribution and retail operations, located in a prominent building...

The future of the post office building in Downtown New Bedford is unclear. Joseph Mulvey, a Real Estate Specialist with the U.S. Postal Service, has been in contact with city officials, indicating the historic building is too large for what services are provided there, and it's becoming too costly to maintain...

The City of New Bedford has declared a Snow Emergency Parking Ban, starting tonight at midnight.  Snow is expected to begin early Wednsday morning with three to six inches expected in the Southeast Region.  The Parking Ban will extend to Wednesday at 6pm...

What are you doing New Year's Eve? Look no further than downtown New Bedford for a full night of entertainment, with live music, street perfromers, and fireworks. AHA! Director Lee Heald says restaurants will be open for business, too. City Celebrates...

The City Council seems supportive of installing pianos for public use throughout New Bedford. Ward Five Councilor Jane Gonsalves proposed the motion Thursday night, after witnessing a similar program achieve great success in Boston. Gonsalves works in Boston, and says she passes by one of the pianos nearly every day...

A New Bedford man faces several charges after allegedly stealing a purse from a downtown office building. Police say the suspect had no business in the offices at South 2nd and Elm Streets Friday afternoon, but snuck in anyway, taking several items from a purse hidden under a desk, and then fleeing the scene...

Many found themselves re-living their high school days as they took a look around downtown New Bedford Thursday night.

The investigation into a pair of sexual assaults this month in New Bedford is continuing .  Police are hoping video from surveillance cameras will lead them to a suspect in at least one of the cases.  WBSM's Jim Phillips has more.