parker street

New Bedford Police are investigating a shooting this evening on Parker Street, in a West End neighborhood that has been plagued by shootings this year.

NEW BEDFORD - The City Council voted to send a loan request of $6,499,000 by Mayor Jon Mitchell for environmental cleanup projects to the Committee on Finance during Thursday's meeting for further discussion.

The author of a new report on contamination sites in New Bedford hopes the document will be used to bring different factions together to resolve those issues. The draft report, done by Conservation Law Foundation Vice-President Veronica Eady, was discussed Saturday at the Downtown Library in New Bedford...

The City of New Bedford has reached settlements with two companies responsible for the contamination of two properties. Under the settlements, AVX Corporation will pay the City $6.5 million with Cornell-Dubilier Electronics shelling out $2 million for claims relating to the North Terminal Rail Yard and the Parker Street Waste Site...

Fairhaven Police are looking for a robbery suspect who wrestled a purse from a woman, and then ran off. Sgt. Kevin Kobza says the robbery happened on Wilding Street around 2:30pm. Police say the victim then gave chase into Livesey Park, and jumped on the back of the robber...

Final plans are now in place for the remediation of several vacant lots at the Parker Street waste site. The plan calls for the first three feet of soil at the six city-owned lots to be removed and capped with clean soil.