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NJ releases prison death data for first time in effort to bring closure, accountability
14+ hour, 18+ min ago Published Dec 21, 2025 at 11:01 a.m. ET Hundreds of people died inside New Jersey state prisons over the past seven years, many from heart disease, cancer and COVID-19, according to newly released data that the Department of Corrections had not previously made public....
Batten the hatches: NYC, NJ to get heavy rain, winds and flooding from nor'easter
2+ mon, 1+ week ago Published Oct 11, 2025 at 12:17 p.m. ET New York and New Jersey are bracing for a tumultuous nor'easter hitting the region with coastal floods, heavy rain and damaging winds starting Sunday and into Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Rainfall is expected…...
Jack Ciattarelli wants to gut NJ’s affordable housing laws. Can he do it?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago Published Oct 6, 2025 at 6:01 a.m. ET "Overdevelopment" is a common refrain whenever Jack Ciattarelli gets in front of voters. During his first debate with Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic nominee in the New Jersey governor's race, he spoke of "an overdevelopment crisis....
A microcosm of the NJ governor’s race? Welcome to Morris County.
2+ mon, 3+ week ago Published Sep 25, 2025 at 6:01 a.m. ET A story Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli tells on the campaign trail also doubles as a joke: A woman in Morris County, New Jersey, walked into a cafe and approached him "respectful but a little defiant," he…...
Housing advocates ask courts to crack down on NJ towns over affordable housing plans
3+ mon, 2+ week ago Published Sep 3, 2025 at 1:35 p.m. ET A New Jersey housing advocacy group is challenging the affordable housing plans of 16 towns, saying they fall short of what is required by a 2024 law that aims to add 80,000 new homes across the state. If the…...
50 years later, what Bruce Springsteen’s 'Born to Run' means to the New Jersey
3+ mon, 3+ week ago Published Aug 25, 2025 at 4:13 p.m. ET "Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run." 50 years ago today, Bruce Springsteen unveiled those lyrics to the world, with the album "Born to Run" hitting the shelves on Aug. 25, 1975. It is the singers…...
A New Jersey town planned a dozen new affordable homes. They may never be built.
4+ mon, 1+ week ago Published Aug 15, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ET New Jersey state Sen. Owen Henry is angry. Before he was elected to the Legislature last year, he'd negotiated as the mayor of Old Bridge to build 12 new affordably priced homes " many of them for veterans…...
How do NJ beachgoers feel about the governor's race? Gothamist hit the shore.
4+ mon, 2+ week ago Published Aug 6, 2025 at 6:31 a.m. ET August on the Jersey Shore means soaking up sun as the tide rolls in and out, filling your belly with an overabundance of funnel cake, and doing your level best not to think, discuss and " for…...
Some PATH lines suspended to New York City after fire in train car
4+ mon, 2+ week ago Published Aug 4, 2025 at 8:47 a.m. ET Several New Jersey PATH train lines were suspended during Monday morning's commute after a fire broke out in a train car, sending panicked passengers scrambling toward the exits. Port Authority officials said the fire broke out…...
Early Addition: Who isn't getting kicked out of a New Jersey Little League game?
4+ mon, 4+ week ago Published Jul 24, 2025 at 10:01 a.m. ET Good Thursday morning in New York City, where Columbia University is about to be $221 million poorer. The lawyers represent low-income New Yorkers across the city. Published Jul 24, 2025 at 8:12 a.m. ET The city's Economic Development Corporation is proposing…...