A winning lottery ticket was a popular story this week. Here's a recap of the most-read Standard Times stories.

The journey from vacant nursing home to 63-unit apartment building at 4586 Acushnet Ave. takes a big step forward.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is welcoming more visitors than ever thanks to the rail, and is growing to meet the need. Here's what's coming.

The Buttonwood Park Zoo and Roger Williams Park Zoo will be making adjustments Tuesday due to the extreme heat.

A developer faces strong opposition from neighbors with multiple concerns who live in the area of a proposed laundromat.

The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man ...

The City of New Bedford said it was opening cooling centers in order to combat an extreme heat warning that will be in effect for multiple days. Public libraries will act as cooling centers during the ...

The New Bedford Community Preservation Committee wants to hear from the public to update next fiscal year's community ...

Acting Police Chief Derek Belong gave the city’s newest police officers a daylong tour of New Bedford, from the beaches to ...

DARTMOUTH — Greater New Bedford Voke Tech sophomore Olivia Araujo had a trip around the bases to let the moment sink in. That wasn’t enough time to grasp what she just did, though. Araujo ...

NEW BEDFORD — Many of the recommendations in an 18-month study to improve New Bedford Police performance are already being implemented, including increasing pay and adding body cameras.

Kendra Santiago, from New Bedford, is a standout student in the Legal & Protective Services shop at GNB Voc-Tech. She is the first GNBVT student to be accepted by Harvard University. She will be ...