Essex County

The latest calls for a review of New Jersey's upcoming July 7 primary election are from two Democrats, voicing concern for how the state has carried out the mostly mail-in ballot voting.

Mayor Ras Baraka said the city removed the statue that has stood in Washington Park since 1927 in order to avoid the risk of people taking it down on their own.

Three people who were shot in two separate incidents around midnight Tuesday are all expected to survive according to Atlantic City police.

From parents of high schoolers to first-generation college grads, there are lots of folks not willing to give up on their 'dream' just yet.

Veteran Newark police officer Sgt. Michael Clegg is the second city cop to die in the past two weeks due to complications from the COVID-19 virus, his family told Newark police.

Roughly 100,000 New Jersey students still lack internet access and even more need a device to log on for school work.

There will be even fewer Catholic schools next school year, continuing a years-long trend of parochial school closings.

The lawsuit calls the state's restrictions during its first public health emergency a "bewildering hodgepodge of permissions and prohibitions of normal social and economic activity."

Father Kevin Robinson said his civil rights were violated by Governor Murphy's directive amid COVID-19, which bans in-person gatherings of any kind.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday lifted the executive order closing all state and county parks but individual counties will decide if they are going along.