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Sparks flew early during Thursday night's City Council budget hearing with the School Department.

This week, a local man was robbed after responding to a Craigslist ad in a New Bedford housing development. A motion filed last month by Ward Five City Councilor Kerry Winterson could have prevented that crime. Winterson proposed establishing city police stations as "safe zones" for pre-arranged transactions...

New Bedford's already tight 2016 budget looks to get even tighter as city officials try to make do. Monday night, more department heads met with the City Council to go over individual cuts and increases for next year's budget. Some officials described needing to eliminate positions in money-saving moves, with those responsibilities spread out to others...

A law granting the City Council more control over school funding has been on the books since 1987, but had never been approved until Thursday night.

Teachers and parents are saying there is still a serious threat of violence in New Bedford Public Schools.

Mayor Jon Mitchell wants to change the name of a section of Route 18. In a letter to the City Council, Mayor Mitchell is requesting the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway be changed to John. F. Kennedy Boulevard. Mitchell tells WBSM News after the redesign from Elm street to Cove street, the new name is a better representation, "By calling it a boulevard, it will convey to people that it is par

The New Bedford City Council hopes to hear from public school teachers Thursday night, concerning disciplinary issues within the schools. Councillor-At-Large Brian Gomes says he still hears about troubling behavior from students within the high school and middle schools, and wants to get to the bottom of it, "Every day we hear of incidents...

The New Bedford School Committee approved Supt. Dr. Pia Durkin's proposed $120.4 million budget Monday night 6-1. However, the mayor will not support it.

According to one City Councilor, the New Bedford High School Robtics Class has lost its head instructor and could possibly lose its Federal funding at the end of this school year.

There has been plenty of sports talk this week in New Bedford.