Newark News

It's happening in Newark, New Jersey where the mayor would like his community to be known as a well mannered one.

Traffic stopped, bagpipers played, officers lined the streets and saluted. It wasn't a funeral.

The city of Newark has selected 24 applicants to buy city-owned land at discounted prices, bringing Newark one step closer to its first sale since a court injunction halted the controversial practice two years ...

Kyra Gaunt and Tomas Doncker offer special wishes to Lenny & Diana after helping them become engaged on the Morristown Green.

TRENTON, N.J. -- They're cramped and with about 40 years of wear and tear. But for transit agencies scrambling to meet higher demand, old NJ Transit rail cars don't seem like a bad deal right now.

Federal, state and city officials will be on hand this afternoon to announce more redevelopment of Newark's Minish Park and the Newark waterfront.

MANVILLE -Frank R. Rubito, 79, died Saturday at Beth Isreal Medical Center, Newark, N.J. Born in Nashua, N.H., Frank had been a resident of Manville for many years.

Ever notice the annoying shrill of an idling lightrail car when you are in Penn Station waiting for your outbound lightrail car? The shrill is piercing and annoying.

NEWARK, N.J. - A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway.

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Newark will pay $5.9 million to settle claims brought by the families of two women who drowned when their car went off a major road and into the Passaic River in 2004.

TRENTON, N.J. -- A former Edison resident is suing the township and its police department, claiming he was deported to his native India in retaliation for complaining about police brutality.

Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James could soon learn if a federal judge will throw out his corruption conviction.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker officially wants the Nets to move to Newark. "The Nets were made for Newark," he said.

LEDGER STAFFThe Star-Ledger A member of a sophisticated counterfeiting operation at Newark Liberty International Airport pleaded guilty yesterday in a conspiracy that recruited airport workers to steal nearly ...

Carbon offsets increasingly are becoming a major component in the arsenal for reducing global warming.

A Newark man was shot late last night by an assailant who fired at a woman he was meeting on Seymour Avenue, police said.

Newark's murder rate has dropped so much this year that the city has a shot at breaking an all-time low.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine's legal fight to keep his e-mail correspondence with his ex-girlfriend private is costing New Jersey taxpayers.

Newark has completed installing 109 surveillance cameras in high-crime neighborhoods.