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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 - An arrest has been made in a series of shots fired incidents in New Bedford this week. New Bedford Police say 20-year-old Jordan Michael Lamere of Granfield Street is charged with discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, carrying a firearm without a license, property damage to intimidate, and carrying a loaded firearm...

Eleven people were displaced and one woman was seriously injured after flames erupted in a Pleasant Street home in New Bedford. Fire officials say the fire was reported shortly before 8:30 P.M. Monday on the top floor of the 2 1/2 story home at 1050 Pleasant Street...

Unbeknownst to many, the downtown New Bedford post office has not been in any danger of relocating for quite some time. The U.S. Postal Service in February 2014 had announced intentions to move the services from the Pleasant Street building, citing the sheer size of the building and the high cost of operations and maintenance...

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell is appealing the United States Postal Service's decision to relocate the downtown post office to a storefront instead of keeping it at it's historic location. Mitchell writes he believes the move is "unwise, short-sighted, and potentially disruptive to the strong resurgence of activity that New Bedford's downtown has enjoyed over the past several years... Read M