Bergen County News

New Jersey's high school graduation rate inched up to 87.5 percent last spring, up one percentage point from the year before, state data showed Wednesday.

The Christmas shopping season got off to a much more leisurely start when I was a boy growing up in Bergen County in the days before World War II.

About 120 people gathered at Van Saun Park in Paramus on Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of recent victims of apparent domestic violence.

Students in professor John Buzza's entrepreneurship class are partnering with energy-efficient lighting manufacturer Green-RG to help launch the Bergen County company's products in the New Jersey marketplace.

Four Elizabeth men have been charged by Mahwah detectives with beating and robbing a service station courier of $60,000 in cash in Bergen County.

Fort Lee police will receive a $4,400 grant to crack down on drunk driving through the holiday season, state officials announced Wednesday.

ROCHELLE PARK - Police are working to identify the body of a woman who was found off of Route 17 this morning.

Assemblyman Robert Schroeder has been charged with allegedly stealing more than $1.8 million from people who loaned him money and writing more than $3.4 million in bad checks.

The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it approved fast-growing Investors Bancorp Inc.'s long-pending purchase of Roma Financial Corp. in Mercer County while requiring that the Short Hills -based acquirer take steps to address concerns about discriminatory lending and consumer protections.

Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan gives her speech at the first fund-raiser of her re-election campaign with a $75-a-person cocktail party at Il Villaggio in Carlstadt, on December 3. Kathleen Donovan vowed Tuesday to wage a vigorous campaign for re-election to Bergen County executive, a fight that may involve opposition from within her own ... (more)

A Cliffside Park man urged an accomplice to "finish" another borough man with a knife during a domestic dispute and later helped with dismembering the victim's body, an assistant Bergen County prosecutor said in laying out the state's case Tuesday.

A 10-year-old boy who had been named the town's honorary police chief was given a funeral with full police honors Tuesday, his flag-draped coffin arriving at a church to the sound of bagpipes and leaving with a motorcycle escort.

Dansky, who is also the vice president of the River Edge Board of Education, was there to encourage participation in the BCSBA and the annual New Jersey School Board Association delegate assembly.

Fair Lawn officials approved three projects to be paid for with grants from the county during their meeting last week.

As the holiday season gets into full swing, the Wyckoff Family YMCA is hosting an art exhibit featuring the work of local artist Mark Oberndorf December 3 - January 2, 2014.

Just as the holiday season is ramping up, the Paramus Police Department was given the gift of seven new Class 1 Special Police Officers who recently graduated from the Bergen County Police Academy.

Hackensack 's welfare director made headlines when she cut off public assistance to a homeless man who failed to report an $850 reward he earned for doing a good deed.

Bergen County elections officials have set aside three days next week for the recount of ballots in the closely-contested race for a state Assembly seat in District 38, the largest recount the county has conducted in 17 years.

Without another place to go, men and women around Ocean County have struggled for years to make homes for themselves where they can.

Shelter Our Sisters, Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle and County Executive Kathleen Donovan invite you to a Candlelight Vigil to Remember Bergen County Victims of Domestic Violence.