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Two New Bedford residents are arrested after police find them drunk on Union Street.

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 - 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...

Ward 3 City Council candidate Hugh Dunn's campaign announced two major endorsements today. Dunn, who was previously endorsed by the New Bedford Firefighters Association IAFF Local 841, has now also been endorsed by the Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Central Labor Council, and the Southeastern Massachusetts Cape Cod & Islands Building Trades Council. ...

President Donald Trump is working to bring back manufacturing to America and an automobile plant is just the cure for the greater New Bedford economy.

NEW BEDFORD - The Downtown New Bedford branch of the Registry of Motor Vehicles is relocating. In a surprise announcement, MassDOT says the branch will permanently close the Union Street location on Friday at 5 P.M. and open it's new location at the New Bedford Industrial Business Park on Monday, February 6th...

A New Bedford man is found dead of an apparent overdose inside of a sober house. New Bedford Police tell WBSM News the 57-year-old man was found unconscious by a roommate around 7:30 Tuesday night at the Freedom House at 398 Union Street...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Striking Verizon employees may be back to work next week after the company and its unions reached an agreement in principle for a four-year contract. About 39,000 Verizon Communications Inc. landline and cable employees in nine eastern states and Washington, D...

After nearly three hours of discussions, the New Bedford teachers union approved a new three-year contract on Thursday. Teachers at New Bedford elementary, middle, and high schools attended the meeting held in the Keith Middle School auditorium...