Halifax councillors approved funding for 10 new firefighters Friday, and left open the possibility of doubling that number, ...

For its 100th birthday, the North Bessemer Volunteer Fire Department in Penn Hills was gifted $125,000 toward repaving its ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

BEDFORD — Volunteers for Bedford County’s fire and emergency medical services departments can expect ... He said with the average price of new vehicles being around $40,000 and such prices ...

When a city government position opens in New Bedford, the city will be waiting 45 days before posting the job opening. The city said the move to delay filling vacant positions is part of a ...

The Mitchell Administration announced today that the City of New Bedford is putting a hiring freeze into effect in what it is calling a 'belt-tightening' move.

City police appreciate the House of Hope homeless shelter, said Chief Paul Oliveira, because it will take in anyone found on ...

SCOTT HUNTER is retiring as fire chief in Bedford at the end of March. To the surprise of probably no one who knows him, though, his idea of taking it easy involves hiking more than 2,190 miles from ...

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

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

New Bedford firefighters assisted in the delivery of a baby girl, making sure the child and mother got proper care.