healthcare

Mayor Mitchell announced the decision to utilize of a 2007 state law allowing the city to use a neutral arbitrator to negotiate health insurance plans with public employee unions.

BOSTON (AP) _ A new report is highlighting some of the hurdles that remain to full health care in Massachusetts. According to a report released this week by the Center for Health Information and Analysis, the state's rate of uninsured residents was 3...

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren continued her town hall tour of Massachusetts on Wednesday night at UMASS Dartmouth.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — Describing it as a three-legged stool, House Minority Leader Brad Jones said it appears “the game plan is written” as lawmakers were on the verge Wednesday of sending Gov. Charlie Baker $200 million in new employer health care fees and a reduction in a planned unemployment insurance (UI) rate hike, but not the MassHealth reforms that Baker says are critical...

Now that Massachusetts has passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2018, New Bedford can start making plans based on what kind of funding and local aid it will receive from the state. In his weekly appearance on WBSM, Mayor Jon Mitchell said that is helpful, but that there are still a number of ways in which the city's hands are tied when it comes to budgetary matters...

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell isn't happy with the way the City Council narrowly avoided a shutdown of city government when they passed the Fiscal Year 2018 budget Monday night. In his weekly appearance on WBSM, Mayor Mitchell named those he felt understood what was at stake--namely Joe Lopes, Deborah Coelho, Hugh Dunn and Jim Oliveira--and said the rest of the council who voted against the budge

NEW BEDFORD — Mayor Jon Mitchell presented the city council with his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018 Wednesday night at City Hall.

Many people who near retirement age begin to think about how they might like to live out their "golden years," and where. Ever think about retiring to another country? A lot of folks have. According to the Social Security Administration 17 percent of those who retired between 2010 and 2015 retired to a location outside of the USA. Tha...

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell and Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia received a letter from various community organizations asking that they review the proposed merger between Southcoast Health and Care New England.

Hundreds of community members attended a unique town hall-style meeting to discuss opioid abuse and addiction on the Southcoast Wednesday evening at the Zeiterion Theater.