New Jersey News

That disturbing fact is found in the "Kids Count 2013" report released by Advocates for Children of New Jersey .

Beginning August 1st, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission will require drivers with disabilities to get re-certified by a doctor every three years in order to get a handicapped placard and license plates for their car.

More than six months after Superstorm Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore region, the beaches will be open for Memorial Day Weekend and the summer.

The New Jersey Choral Society concludes its 2012-13 season with "Mass," a program of reflective and inspirational music on Friday, May 31 at 8 p.m. at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, 30 North Fullerton Ave., Montclair .

The problem with the current system is that, once a handicapped plate or placard is issued, there was no way to check whether it's still medically necessary.

Could a massive, deadly twister touch down in New Jersey someday? Not likely, but it's not out of the question.

The Railroad CafA© located at 170 Union Ave. in East Rutherford was one of 29 establishments targeted in an ABC sting.

As motorists take to the roads this Memorial Day holiday, the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety is urging everyone to buckle up.

ART, INNOVATION, IDEAS: Faith Ringgold will be one of four artists and teachers judging submissions from local students to The College of New Jersey's exhibition, "Art, Innovation and Ideas," opening Sunday June 2. Students from high schools in Princeton and Lawrenceville will be featured in the TCNJ art gallery.

A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase.

The boardwalks are back, and so are most of the beaches, even if some are a little thinner this year.

The Montclair Police Department along with law enforcement agencies across the country is participating in the the 2013 Click It or Ticket seat-belt campaign now through Sunday, June 2. During this time, there will be zero-tolerance enforcement of safety belt laws, which in New Jersey require all passengers to wear seat belts regardless of their ... (more)

Four falcon chicks that live on the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan to New Jersey have gotten identifying bands around their legs.

Ceraycia Rios, 19, of Buchanan Place, in The Bronx, N.Y., was extradited from New York on a a failure to appear warrant and was lodged in the Cumberland County Jail.

Now that Miss America has returned home pageants are once again in the news. Next week lovely ladies will grace the stage at Harrah's Casino and Spa in the Concert Venue for the Ms New Jersey Senior America Pageant slated for 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. The contestants come to the pageant with life experience and a lot of energy.

Governor Chris Christie speaks at the New Jersey Law Enforcement Memorial Service honoring men and women killed in the line of service at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, N.J. on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

For the last two years, the meeting held monthly in a bare Trenton conference room determined the fates of hundreds of New Jersey public employees, including scores of teachers and school administrators.

Legislation Assembly Democrats Tim Eustace and Connie Wagner sponsored to make clear participation by New Jersey residents in contests of skill does not constitute unlawful gambling was approved 78-0 Monday by the Assembly.

The annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks once again drew people from all over North Jersey to the Bergen Community College campus on Sunday to walk for the cause.

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez led officials in applauding the Coast Guard's approval of a plan to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge, a project intended to assure the future growth of the port.