Colton Bradford is an Emmy award winning journalist and host who officially joined the NBC10 Boston news team as an anchor in July of 2022 following years as co-host and reporter for the station’s entertainment/lifestyle show "The Hub Today."
His broadcast career began at the age of 16 on the radio in his small hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and later included stops at NBC affiliate WPMI.
Colton has reported on numerous issues across multiple NBC platforms, from food insecurities to the public education crisis in America, and even landing a few memorable sit down interviews with icons like Dolly Parton and Tom Hanks.
In 2011, while in college at the University of South Alabama, he began focusing his career on television as a youth voice correspondent for NBC’s "Education Nation" and co-hosted "Student Voice LIVE" with Disney actress Monique Coleman.
A familiar face and voice in the Greater Boston community, Colton moved to Boston at the age of 22 for a job hosting a nightly radio show before getting the chance to audition for "The Hub Today."
He works closely with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and has helped to raise $2.5 million for the families, kids, and research being done there. He currently can be seen reporting on NBCLX and anchoring on NBC10 Boston weekdays at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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Life begins at Dunkin' – for this newborn baby, anyway
There was a very special delivery on Route 6 in Brewster, Massachusetts, earlier this month. A young family welcomed their baby into the world on the side of the highway. And in true Massachusetts fashion, they waited for first responders in a Dunkin’ parking lot. On August 8, Rebecca and Danya Mahota were headed to the hospital when Rebecca’s water…
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The town shut his ice cream stand, but this boy still raised thousands for a good cause
In the days since his ice cream stand fundraiser was shut down, a boy has raised over $6,000 for his brother’s hockey team, for Massachusetts kids with with physical and developmental disabilities, the team says. Danny Doherty, a 12-year-old from Norwood, made some homemade ice cream and planned to sell it, donating half to the Boston Bear Cubs. But a…
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‘Hands off the Mullet': Boston boy hopes his hair makes him a champion
Brody Byrne is Boston’s only representative at the USA Mullet Championships, where he’s raising funds to provide homes for wounded veterans through Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors. And Brodie’s been eyeing this showdown for a very long time.
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Go behind the scenes of covering the search for Ana Walshe in new podcast episode
Pulling from our extensive archive and new reporting, we’re answering exploring that and more in our new podcast, “The Searches for Ana Walshe,” hosted by NBC10 Boston anchor Colton Bradford, and Matt Fortin. Subscribe and listen to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts for a comprehensive look back at the search, new insights on what happened and...
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Who is Brian Walshe? A new look at the accused killer in new podcast
In this episode of our true crime podcast on the killing of Ana Walshe, allegedly by her husband, we dig into what people, including Ana, have said about Brian Walshe.
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How Brian Walshe's years-long art fraud scheme unfolded, in episode 2 of our podcast
Brian Walshe has become best known for his now infamous alleged Google searches made on the day his wife, Ana, was last seen — New Year’s Day 2023. But, the murder charge that would follow in Ana Walshe’s disappearance was not Brian’s first run in with law. In episode 2 of “The Searches for Ana Walshe” podcast, we are diving…
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Revisit the Ana Walshe murder case ahead of the trial in new podcast
Just over a year ago, the search for Ana Walshe of Cohasset, Massachusetts, sparked widespread curiosity, concern and eventual heartbreak when it became apparent that the missing mother of three and real estate maven was dead, allegedly murdered by her husband, Brian Walshe. Amid the search for Ana — one that took investigators all over Greater Boston, from Swampscott to…
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New research finds proof this area is a major white shark hot spot
Enough white sharks are now visiting Cape Cod that researchers are calling it one of the world’s largest hot spots for the apex predator. About 800 white sharks swam through the Cape Cod area from 2015 to 2018, according to the new research, published Thursday in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. It used a first-of-its-kind population survey for white…
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Cocaine in shampoo? False positive lands Lynn man in Canadian jail for 5 days
A vacation in Brazil turned into a nightmare for an airline worker from Lynn, Massachusetts. On Brazilian soil, Yeremi Cuevas Tolentino had no problems. But when he made a connection in Toronto to travel back to Boston, Canadian authorities put him in custody, alleging he had cocaine inside a shampoo bottle. “I was terrified, I was afraid, I didn’t...
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Where Did the Royals Head to After the Celtics Game? Twitter Gives Wrong Answers Only
The Prince and Princess of Wales made a major splash when they arrived in Boston this week, marking their first visit to the United States since 2014. They’ve made several public appearances since arriving at Logan Airport Wednesday, including a welcome event at City Hall Plaza and the Celtics game at the Garden. Despite the public sightings and speeches, people…
