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The current system isn’t working, city officials say. Inspectors cite the same properties again and again, but the landlords don’t change their habits. Mayor Jon Mitchell’s solution: Raise the fines for repeat code violators.

“The best option for St. Anne’s Hospital, its patients, its employees, and our community, is for St. Anne’s to join the Southcoast Health family.” — Southcoast Health President and CEO David McCready

The extra tall vessels carrying offshore wind equipment need a clearance of 250 feet or higher, so a vertical lift bridge would prevent offshore wind work from happening inside the inner harbor.

Shawn Medeiros, 31, was arrested by state police on Thursday and arraigned in Bristol County Superior Court. He was charged with one count of burning a building in connection with a fire that destroyed the long-vacant country club on May 7 last year.

The city isn’t filing any new tax foreclosures until the state Legislature passes a new law that allows homeowners to keep their leftover equity.

I-195 project will demolish New Bedford’s worst highway bridges starting next spring.

The 700-plus new housing units in the city’s pipeline mark a dramatic increase in the pace of housing production. But the city hasn’t reached all of its goals in the Building New Bedford plan yet.

“We need all our communities to do this. The cost of housing is too high and that is the greatest threat to the economic competitiveness of the state.” — Ed Augustus, secretary of the state’s Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, praising New Bedford’s housing plan

New Green Star credits are set to change the way designers should be thinking about Indigenous engagement, cultures and identies, with the release

More than 541 people have died of accidental drug overdoses in New Bedford since 2015, The Light’s analysis of death certificates found. The vast majority of those deaths involved fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that now dominates the illicit drug supply.