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Despite seeing multiple cuts in next year's budget, New Bedford officials say student won't see any loss of services. During Monday's meeting, the New Bedford School Committee reviewed the latest version of the FY18 school operating budget, and passed it with a 5-2 vote...

"Like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, as our roots remain as one"-Anonymous

A property group is taking another shot at creating off-campus student housing near UMass Dartmouth. David Sullivan, a representative for Vision Properties, presented a citizens petition to the Dartmouth Select Board on Monday. The petition proposes a zoning by-law change that would allow for a housing community to be built at the Pine Hill gravel site near the campus...

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...

WBSM is looking for guests for our weekly Public Affairs program. The show is called "Townsquare Sunday" and airs Sunday morning but we tape on Thursday, late morning. If you have a public event, festival, or neighborhood activity you want to publicize, send your info to news@wbsm...

NEW BEDFORD - Conservative politicians and other notables from around the state are descending upon New Bedford Friday to speak out against what they call the 'Massachusetts Establishment'. WBSM Talk Show Host Howie Carr will lead off the Drain the Massachusetts Swamp Rally on the Pleasant Street side of the downtown library at 12 p...

In a tight race for Freetown's open Board of Selectmen, Charles Sullivan won with 295 votes over Craig Cabral's 210 votes, and Joel Pacheco with 118 votes. The other contested race in Freetown saw incumbents Robert Clark and Derek Gracia defeat challenger David Beard for the two Regional School District Committee seats up for grab...

The town of Acushnet now has a selectman with a stance on the controversial LNG facility. Challenger Roger Cabral won Monday night's town election by a landslide against incumbent selectman Garry Rawcliffe, 709 votes to 419. Cabral previously criticized the Board of Selectmen for not coming out against the potential LNG plant in Acushnet...

After next week, the Dartmouth Police Department will find out if they get a new home or not. Project officials and Police Station Committee members spoke during Monday's select board meeting hoping to clear up any remaining questions on the $15-million dollar building, and to make a final push for voters to support the debt exemption ballot question on April 4...

The day after North Korean leader Kim Jung-Un promised to destroy the United States in a nuclear fire, the nation fired a missile from their east coast within the city of Wonsan and it exploded seconds after launch. This highly visible failure in the spotlight of the world is thought to be an extremely humiliating and enraging moment for the odd, portly stump of a man who is known to execute milit