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By MATT KADOSH
April 10, 2024
NEWARK, NJ — City youths who do not stay within 100 feet of their homes during certain nighttime hours could face police action starting Friday, April 12. The city announced that officers will enforce Newark's longstanding curfew ordinance, which prohibits people under 18 unaccompanied by an ...
CAMDEN, NJ – The Battleship New Jersey was quietly pushed into a 180-degree turn on the Delaware River just after noon on Thursday as it began a journey south to spend a couple of months for bow maintenance in dry dock at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. “Is it moving? Is it moving?” one ...
TRENTON, NJ - At a state Senate budget hearing just days prior, advocates for the media and transparency voiced their concerns about proposed changes to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, and by Friday, March 15, the measure had been put on hold. Bill A-4045 was to be heard in committee on ...
TRENTON — Advocates for transparency and open government testified Monday, March 11, against an overhaul to the state’s Open Public Records Act as government interests lauded the measure. The bill (S-2930), which if passed would be the first major update to the state’s public records law in over ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Reported bias incidents at Rutgers-New Brunswick more than doubled in 2023 from the previous year, according to statistics released by state officials. There were 77 reported bias incidents in 2023, up from the 36 that were reported in 2022, according to data from Attorney ...
TRENTON, NJ - The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) will host in-person and virtual information sessions to introduce the newly established $20 million Emerging Developers Grant pilot program. The Program will help developers gain access to capital and build additional capacity ...
NEWARK,NJ - The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers-Newark is now the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Race in Politics in America. University officials, along with state and local officials, renamed the school at a ceremony attended by family members of the late lieutenant governor on ...
NEW JERSEY - The longtime head of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association (NJSPBA) has announced his retirement effective May 1, 2024. This announcement marks the end of a thirty-one-year- long law enforcement career for Patrick Colligan that began at the Franklin Police ...
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - The second of two American Bald Eagle eggs have hatched in the nest high atop a 90-foot Sycamore tree in a wooded area along the Raritan River at Duke Farms. The adult Eagle caring for the two hatchlings has been busy feeding them bits of raw fish and hunkering down over them ...
NEWARK, NJ — Free classes being offered to Newark women aim to improve their financial literacy in a place where wide economic disparities persist. Newark First Lady Linda J. Baraka announced the “Newark Women Moving Forward” initiative during a news conference with city leaders at the ...
NEWARK, NJ – Users of the NJ TRANSIT Access Link rideshare partnership in Hudson County are now able to opt in to receive their rides through Lyft or Black and White Taxi as part of the Riders’ Choice Pilot Program which began in May 2023, officials announced recently. Access Link is NJ ...
TRENTON, NJ — All of New Jersey’s sworn law enforcement officers – roughly 40,500 cops – must now have valid licenses from the state’s Police Training Commission to continue wearing a badge. Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Police Licensure Act (S2742/A4194) in July 2022, and it is now in effect, ...
TRENTON, NJ — The most recent ANCHOR program, covering the 2020 tax year, distributed more than $2.1 billion to over 1.8 million New Jersey homeowners and renters, a statement from Governor Phil Murphy’s office announced on Monday. With more than 1.2 million homeowners and approximately 579,000 ...
NEW JERSEY — Real estate developer and entrepreneur Curtis Bashaw is running for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat currently held by Bob Menendez. “Too many New Jerseyans believe the American Dream is out of reach and that Washington isn’t working in their best interests,” Bashaw said in a news ...
NEW JERSEY - Longtime Democratic Party activist and veteran labor leader Patricia Campos-Medina is running for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat currently held by Bob Menendez. “I am running for the United States Senate because I want to make sure all our children have the same opportunity I ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - State Senator John Bramnick (R-Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union) officially entered the 2025 race for Governor on Saturday. Bramnick, who will seek the Republican nomination for New Jersey's top elected position, is the third announced candidate following Jersey City ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ - Elected representatives from across Hudson County have slammed a proposal by Gov. Phil Murphy and NJ Transit to hike fares by 15 percent in an effort to close an exacerbating budget gap. The fare hike proposal, which would take effect on July 1st of this year, would result, ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ - For those in search of real, authentic honey, Joe's Buzzed Bee Honey in Sayreville might just pique your interest. Joe Letlow, owner, has lived in Sayreville for over 30 years and has been selling homemade honey locally for over a decade. Letlow makes his products from his home ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Rutgers University continues to face sharp criticism after it announced last week that it has lifted the suspension of the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on its New Brunswick campus. “For weeks, the Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine New Brunswick chapter ...
BAYONNE/JERSEY CITY, NJ - Assemblyman William Sampson IV (D-Hudson) has been appointed to serve as Chairman of the New Jersey General Assembly’s Consumer Affairs Committee. Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin announced the move earlier this week. The committee is charged with considering ...
TRENTON, NJ - Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act on Friday. The bill establishes a Community Crisis Response Advisory Council, along with a companion community crisis response pilot program, and appropriates $12 million to support grant ...
TRENTON, NJ - As local leaders debate what to do about the influx of migrants into New Jersey, and specifically Hudson County, Gov. Phil Murphy is taking a similar stance to one taken by Mayor Eric Adams of New York City and demanding that bus companies provide information ahead of time. In a ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark may be the first in New Jersey to expand the right to vote in school board elections to people as young as 16. The Newark City Council on Wednesday, Dec. 20, gave its initial approval to extending voting in school board races to 16- and 17-year-olds. Council members heard the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The 134-day nurses strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital that was often filled with harsh words in the media and shouting in the streets came to a quiet conclusion Friday night, Dec. 15. Word that the nurses represented by United Steel Workers Local 4-200 have ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Rutgers officials have declined to block two controversial speakers from participating in an upcoming campus talk on Palestine, despite demands from a North Jersey congressman that the “well-known antisemites” be pulled from the program. According to a letter sent to Rutgers ...
ATLANTIC OCEAN, NJ - A sailboat captain whose vessel had become stranded at sea after departing from Jersey City was rescued 270 miles off the coast of North Carolina, the Raleigh News and Observer reported. The US Coast Guard reported that family members reported losing contact with the ...
SECAUCUS, NJ - New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Meadowlands Chamber CEO Jim Kirkos held an armchair discussion/conversation last week speaking about the state’s efforts to bolster small business across New Jersey. The Meadowlands Chamber has a membership of more than 1,100 businesses and ...
NORTH BERGEN, NJ - Vowing to stay in place as New Jersey’s senior U.S. Senator, Bob Menendez said on Monday that he will be vindicated once all the facts in the case against him are presented. America’s justice system is based on the concept of innocent until proven guilty, Menendez said at a ...
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Senator Richard Codey announced that he will be retiring in January when his term ends after serving as assemblyman, state senator and as New Jersey governor during the last half century. “I’m not gonna lie, this is a tough day for me. An emotional day. But here it is: After a ...
TOTOWA, NJ – Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) joined with the New Jersey police officials and family members of victims of overdoses on Tuesday to tout the recent passage of the "Fend Off Fentanyl Act," a landmark sanctions legislation targeting fentanyl trafficking. Included in this year's defense ...
