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NEW BEDFORD — A heavy fire broke out Wednesday night in a New Bedford apartment building just outside of downtown. The fire was reported around 8:30 p.m. in Apartment 5G at the Harborview Towers apartment complex at 60 South Second Street...

Vandals spray painted anti-Semitic graffiti on a building and a sidewalk in downtown New Bedford. The graffiti was discovered on Tuesday, and New Bedford Police say it may have happened overnight. Two blue swastikas were spray-painted onto a building and sidewalk on Dover Street, between North Water Street and Acushnet Avenue...

NEW BEDFORD - City officials held a figurative groundbreaking at the future site of a boutique hotel at the corner of Union and Pleasant Streets in downtown New Bedford. The current building at the site is undergoing a year-long, $10 million renovation managed by the Columbus Group, LLC, of Boston...

NEW BEDFORD - Renovation of a downtown New Bedford building is scheduled to begin at the end of the week, turning the structure into a boutique hotel. The New Bedford Office of Economic Development says the groundbreaking on the roughly $10 million renovation of the building at 218-226 Union Street is being held Friday at noon...

NEW BEDFORD - The special election for the Ward Three City Council seat in New Bedford is just days away. Candidates Bethany Fauteux and Hugh Dunn met in WBSM's studios for a live discussion Thursday night on issues pertaining to the ward and the city...

NEW BEDFORD—Mayor Jon Mitchell and other city officials announced Thursday the creation of The Blue Lane, a path that will connect New Bedford like never before. The 11-mile span will connect the HarborWalk and CoveWalk along the South End peninsula all the way across the city to the planned RiverWalk on the banks of the Acushnet River in the North End...

This Saturday, the City of New Bedford is launching a new mobile payment app for motorists to utilize at metered parking spaces downtown. The free MobileNOW! App can be downloaded anytime and used when parking at a meter. Tourism Director Dagny Ashley tells WBSM News it's a simple, convenient way to pay for parking...

An explosion at the Greasy Luck Brewery in New Bedford caused a scare Friday afternoon, but no damage or injuries. The New Bedford Fire Department received the alarm at 12:46 p.m.. The initial call was for an explosion at the Purchase Street establishment, but they didn't receive any notificiation of an active fire...

NEW BEDFORD - Many of us barely know how to use the latest technology, but State Troopers assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office are now experts on dismantling and forensically analyzing such equipment after years of specialized training...

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