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Another North Jersey school district has opted to swap Christopher Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day on its calendar.

Trenton has become the latest school district in the state to sue its local teachers union, accusing it of holding up a return to any in-person instruction for the first time in more than a year.

A Hawaiian vacation for three tourists from the U.S. East Coast turned deadly after one of them became “psychotically” drunk, his friend testified Wednesday.

With a few months to go until the end of the second school year, Gov. Phil Murphy expects a fresh start with full-time classes after the summer.

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal is concerned there may be other children who Keith F. Matheis tried to meet.

How did Mount Olive schools start the return to full classroom instruction but other districts are duking it out with school boards and filing lawsuits?

Tensions mount across the state between parents and school districts.

The governor said the return in some districts to classroom learning has "worked quite well" even as more districts go all- remote through at least Thanksgiving.

"I just want people to remember those kids," artist Amy Putman said, of children separated from unauthorized immigrant families and still being held alone in U.S. detention centers.

Rowan University notably leads the pack of colleges and universities in New Jersey that have positive cases among students this fall.