New Jersey News

Roughly 12,000 New Jerseyans were counted as homeless last year, the lowest level in at least the last five years, according to data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Sightings of snowy owls, usually a rare winter guest spotted once or twice a year in New Jersey, have become increasingly common over the past few weeks in the Shore area.

A Christmas Carol in Princeton - The McCarter Theatre's traditional holiday spectacle, a musical rendering of "A Christmas Carol," begins preview performances this weekend.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks about issues confronting the party at the Republican Governors' Association meetings in Phoenix on Nov. 21, 2013.

In last night's episode of "Chasing New Jersey," host, Bill Spadea asked reporter and chaser, Hank Flynn , who decided to walk the length of Route 3 from its end in Clifton where it meets up with Route 46 to the other end in Secaucus, where it hooks up to I-495 toward the Lincoln Tunnel.

The Christie Administration has announced the state will use almost $5.5 million in federal funds for school and community-based psychosocial intervention programs to help kids cope with social, psychological and family stress caused by Superstorm Sandy .

Nearly 4 Million in New Jersey with Preexisting Conditions Currently Protected by Affordable Care Act As millions of Garden Staters benefit from the Affordable Care Act, New Jersey Republicans are doubling down on their plan to repeal the law while Democrats seek to improve, and effectively implement, health care reform.

Eight people, including a former bank teller, have been charged with participating in an identity theft ring that used account information stolen from customers of TD Bank to steal more than $150,000 at bank branch offices in New Jersey, Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced.

President Barack Obama makes remarks before signing the Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 on Aug. 9. A new study finds that New Jersey college graduates rank eighth in the country in loan debt.

Yogi Berra is a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame's inaugural class. Now New Jersey Hall of Fame Mobile Museum is about to roll into the Yankee legend's territory.

Along the way you will hoist a 5-foot projectile in the gun house elevator, load powder bags that launched the projectile 23 miles, plot a firing solution on the analog computer and pull the trigger to simulate the firing of this massive gun! urret II Experience tours launch Saturdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Reserve your space in advance ... (more)

Much of their time is spent commemorating others. So the New Jersey Historical Commission finally decided it was time to honor them.

A New Jersey woman was charged with attempting to kill her two children by setting fire to the car in which they were riding, authorities said Wednesday.

Robert Smithson's sculpture "Non-Site. Line of Wreckage " is an upright aluminum box painted barn red, with open slats on its wide sides, containing chunks of broken concrete that Smithson had picked up while wandering around industrial ruins in New Jersey.

The New Jersey State Police account for all of the offenders through the Megan's Law registry.

Cornell William Brooks, CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, speaks at a press conference at City Hall in Jersey City on Dec. 4, 2013.

For about the next month, more than 400 law enforcement agencies will be patrolling the state's roads looking for drunk and impaired drivers as part of the annual "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" holiday campaign, which runs from Dec. 6 to Jan. 2. Of those agencies, 144 will receive grants of $4,400 from the Division of Highway Traffic Safety that ... (more)

On Sept. 22, 1873, Newton suffered its worst fire in history. The blaze started in George L. Smith's drug store on Main Street, and rapidly spread, swallowing and destroying an estimated $65,000 worth of property.

A new survey finds most New Jerseyans, as well as most Americans, don't trust people they don't know.

Probably the most jarring election story of 2013 was the successful recall of two Democratic state senators in Colorado.