NEW JERSEY—Worried about increasing numbers of children not being vaccinated every year—plus increasing numbers of measles cases—two state senators sponsoring a bill to eliminate religious exemptions and tighten medical exemptions […]
NEW JERSEY—While legislators approved a public question for November 2020 to let New Jersey voters decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana, the debate begins anew over legal pot’s potential impacts—from […]
BERGEN COUNTY—Our current weather forecast would have seemed downright balmy to those who lived through early January 1904. The new year kicked off with a snowstorm in conjunction with a […]
NEW JERSEY—Following several years of wrangling over ways to improve the state’s open public records law—which enables citizens to access government records within seven days of request—an organization representing municipal […]
CLOSTER, N.J.—Residents answered a call by local police and emergency officials to donate this year—and the result was toys piled waist-high inside the Closter Hook and Ladder Co. firehouse on […]
EMERSON, N.J.—German-born Daniel and Christina Heck first moved to Kinderkamack, later renamed Emerson, in 1869 and bought the land consisting of an old house, barn, outbuildings and 63 acres of […]
EMERSON, N.J.—The Borough Council voted on Dec. 17 to approve lease condemnation for the embattled Cork & Keg liquor store on Kinderkamack Road, which is at ground zero of the […]
Hail of damage after train smashes into fallen tree Officers were dispatched Dec. 9 at about 8:32 p.m. on a report that a tree had fallen on the New Jersey […]
NEW JERSEY—Distracted driving is likely as dangerous and deadly as drunk driving. That’s according to area police officials, state law enforcement agencies, and a New Jersey court that recently found […]
HACKENSACK, N.J.—Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton is ordering Sheriff’s Office personnel to increase patrols at synagogues and surrounding population centers in response to the Dec. 10 shooting targeting a kosher […]
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