"Yesterday’s fire marked the first Massachusetts fire death of 2025," New Bedford fire officials wrote, crediting State Fire ...

Bristol Community College has started training people to work in offshore wind farms. But will it have a place under ...

Authorities on Tuesday identified a man who died in a two-alarm fire in New Bedford on Monday that may have started from smoking materials and electrical issues, officials said.

One person died and four others were hospitalized following a raging structure fire in New Bedford Monday afternoon, according to officials.

A fatal house fire in New Bedford that claimed the life of an 88-year-old man was determined to be accidental. The Massachusetts Department of Fire Services said on Tuesday that while the fire on 24 ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — The New Bedford Fire Department helped welcome a new baby into the world early Saturday morning.

In the firefighting and emergency response world, time equals lives. And Bedford Fire Chief Scott Hunter hopes the time is ...

The New Bedford Fire Department said that firefighters helped deliver a baby girl in the early morning hours of Feb. 1. The ...

Chowder is taken very seriously in New Bedford as our reader's poll named their favorite. Here's a recap of the most-read ...

Yellow strips of paper — 215 of them to be exact — were quickly sorted into piles for yes and no on the stage floor of Bedford High School's theater. At stake: a secret ballot vote to zero out the ...

BEDFORD — Bedford Town Council voted unanimously on Jan. 14 to appoint Stacey Wills as the town fire department’s new fire chief. Town Manager Bart Warner said the Bedford Fire Department ...

(This story has been updated to correct an inaccuracy and add new information.) NEW BEDFORD — One person has died and four were injured in a raging fire in New Bedford's North End on Monday ...