Jersey City News

Water has been flowing out of the manhole cover under the train trestle near Harrison Street and Observer Highway and also on Observer Highway near Bloomfield Street.

Many people going through a divorce experience a combination of emotional and monetary concerns.

Fulop, 36, defeated incumbent Mayor Jerramiah Healy on Tuesday in a closely watched, fiercely contested election.

A student running for office in the St. Peter's Prep student government was sent racist txt messages warning him to drop out of the race.

The top two winners in The Jersey Journal's Hudson County Science Fair are bringing home prizes from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which is being held this week in Phoenix.

By the time of tomorrow's drawing, the Powerball lottery jackpot is expected to be $600 million -- larger than all but one jackpot in the Powerball's history.

A Jersey City man was shot Thursday night and the mother of his children and three other people have been charged, Jersey City police said.

Hailed as an opportunity to better serve the Jersey City community, St. Barnabas Health System announced yesterday morning that it had reached an agreement to take over Jersey City Medical Center.

An exhibit featuring the artwork of New Jersey City University students from a contest to mark the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 2011 opened at the Jersey City Public Library's Five Corners Branch last week.

Cristian Ayala, 18, of Jersey City takes smoke break at the Castle Point Skate Park in Hoboken on Monday, March 12, 2012.

Gov. Chris Christie holds a news conference earlier this year at the Metropolitan Family Health Network in Jersey City, N.J. New Jersey's property tax bills have been rising more slowly since Chris Christie became governor, but that does not mean slow growth for what many homeowners actually have to pay, according to new data released by the state.

The online community that operates in four towns after starting as Hoboken Mommies 24/7 last February, will soon be expanding to include Jersey City and more than a dozen other towns in Northern New Jersey, Himmelbaum announced in time for Mother's Day on Sunday.

While looking for a suspect with an open warrant police noticed a large group of people drinking alcohol in the area Marshall Drive and Fourth Street Saturday at 2:15 a.m. Two Jersey City men were charged with criminal trespass because they had been warned and arrested numerous times for illegally being on Housing Authority property, officials ... (more)

The Rosary Altar Society of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church will hold a flea market on Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., rain or shine at 99 Broadway in Jersey City.

It was not quite the Blessed Mother I knew. But actress Fiona Shaw's Mary was blessed in all her humanness on display at the Walter Kerr Theatre where she flawlessly embodied the mother of Jesus in the iconoclastic "The Testament of Mary," by Irish playwright and author Colm Toibin.

Every Wednesday and Saturday nights, there's a party going on in downtown Jersey City, and you can hear it through your computer.

A Jersey City man was pickpocketed while sleeping at the wheel of his tan Lexus early this morning because the robber needed money "for the kids and the lights," police said.

A Jersey City man accused of beating a man so severely that he fell into a coma and died a month later was found guilty yesterday of reckless manslaughter and criminal trespass.

Keya Williams passes out fliers for mayoral candidate Steven Fulop near the firehouse located on Sip Avenue on Election Day, May 14, 2013 in Jersey City.

Mayor Jerramiah Healy concedes the election to Steven Fulop at his campaign headquarters on Oakland Avenue in Jersey City on election night, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, with his wife Maureen by his side.