The Selmar Eggers building in New Bedford has reopened after restoration following a 1977 gas explosion. The renovated building now houses new businesses, including the Cozy Crib, Kettle Black ...

New Bedford is looking for a new police chief after the retirement of Chief Paul Oliveira. Twenty-one people have applied for the job, city officials said. The department has come under fire ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — A priest is back home thanks to a New Bedford firefighter who saved his life while on vacation. Firefighter Michael Desouza, assigned to Ladder Co. 3, was on a family ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WJAR) — Circulating Department of Homeland Security flyers asking for unaccompanied immigrant children is not sitting well with some local New Bedford groups. Indivisible ...

Fliers from the Department of Homeland Security have been distributed at addresses in New Bedford seeking info on an "unaccompanied alien child." Advocates for immigrants say the move is ...

A New Bedford man is facing drug charges after a traffic stop. Police said they finished an investigation into a cocaine distribution service on April 30, being operated from a residence on Court ...

New Bedford Firefighter Michael Desouza and a 9-1-1 dispatcher from Waltham, MA, started CPR on the man they found floating in the water. A Massachusetts firefighter was vacationing with his ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — New Bedford detectives arrested a 17-year-old with three active warrants after a short chase on Monday. While surveilling the area for criminal activity, detectives ...

They basically, I would say, conceded that they made a mistake.” This story is a production of the New England News Collaborative. It was originally published by The Public's Radio.

JOHN. YEAH. MARIA. THAT MAN’S WIFE RECORDED THE VIDEO INSIDE THE CAR THERE. THEY WERE WAITING. SHE SAYS, FOR THEIR ATTORNEY. BUT THAT MAN WAS ARRESTED BEFORE THE ATTORNEY ARRIVED. IN THIS MOMENT ...

Marilú says she and her husband, Juan Francisco Méndez, were stopped while driving on Tallman Street in New Bedford. That’s where two unmarked cars pulled in front of them and blocked them ...

Marilú Domingo Ortiz, wife of Juan Francisco Méndez, sits for a portrait in the office of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (CCT) after an interview with The Public’s Radio about her husband’s ...