Paul Chasse

There will be a new New Bedford at-large council member elected next year. Long-time councilor Deb Coelho is retiring and that means a new councilor in 2021.

Paul Chasse is making his second run for a seat on the New Bedford City Council. This year he has a path to victory running as an at-large candidate.

It was another year of low voter turnout in New Bedford, with 9.5 percent of registered voters casting 5,618 ballots, the same turnout as in the 2017 preliminary.

Longtime New Bedford City Councilor Brian Gomes has now taken out nomination papers for mayor and for a seat as an at-large councilor.

Two Fall River residents have been arrested on numerous drug charges after police are tipped off to a transaction involving Fentanyl.

Paul Chasse, Chairman of the Rail to Boston Coalition, says we're close to having South Coast Rail, but that we all need to work together to make it happen.

One Ward 5 resident has already thrown his hat into the ring for the upcoming City Council election in New Bedford. Paul Chasse, the CEO of the Realtors Association of Southeastern Massachusetts and the Chairman of the Rail to Boston Coalition, is the first person to officially announce he's seeking the Ward 5 seat this fall...

A Southcoast realtor still thinks commuter rail service to New Bedford and Fall River can happen. Paul Chasse heads a coalition of businesspeople supporting the Southcoast Rail Project. Chasse tells WBSM's Tim Weisberg, local lawmakers have done a great job to get the project where it is, but the next step is the tough part, building support on Beacon Hill...

The number of single-family homes sold in Massachusetts jumped 25% in January compared to the same month in 2015, and weather appears to have played a factor. Cassidy Murphy, the Warren Group's Editorial Director said ``the weather was much more conducive to doing business than last year at this time...

Its not easy to sell a house, even in perfect weather, but imagine trying to sell property when its covered with several feet of snow, there's no place to park, and proper inspections have to be delayed. That's what realtors are facing in Massachusetts...