NEW JERSEY — Cutting off indoor dining and mandating that all non-essential businesses close their doors at 8 p.m. are part of the measures that will begin in Newark on Tuesday, after the largest city in New Jersey confirmed more cases Sunday (101 total) than all other Essex County towns combined.

Since June 30, the city has reported at least 2,207 coronavirus cases and 42 ...

NEW JERSEY — Five days after Gov. Phil Murphy suddenly left a briefing in Camden County over concerns of having the coronavirus, he said this afternoon he has not been symptomatic and tested negative four times since last Monday.

First Lady Tammy Murphy, who entered a voluntary self-quarantine with the governor last week, has tested negative three times.  

Still, ...

NEW JERSEY — New Jersey has submitted a draft of a coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Gov. Phil Murphy and other state officials announced Monday during a virtual press briefing. 

While a COVID-19 vaccine or therapeutic has not been created, the governor said the “growing reality” is that one or more vaccines ...

BLACKWOOD, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife, First Lady Tammy Murphy, entered a voluntary self-quarantine Wednesday afternoon after a senior staff member - who the governor was in close proximity to Saturday - tested positive for coronavirus. 

Murphy unexpectedly left a press briefing Wednesday at midday in Camden County, after learning of his exposure to the individual - whose ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — A fire that sporadically erupted in the engine compartment of a man’s vehicle costed him his car this morning.

Firefighters arrived to the city apartment complex of 340 Hudson Street before 10 a.m. Wednesday to find the hood of a parked Nissan mini van up in orange and yellow flames and thick clouds of grey and black smoke.

The ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — After George Floyd’s Memorial Day death at the hands of Minneapolis police, his utterance of “I can’t breathe” became the rally cry of seas of disgruntled protesters who filled the streets of major cities around the country demanding justice for him, and all the black lives who have been victims of police brutality — a number of them American ...

PARAMUS, N.J. — The eighth president of Bergen Community College will emerge from a field of four finalists recommended to the institution’s board of trustees by a search committee of College officials, faculty, staff, students and community members. Selected through a nationwide search process, finalists Eric M. Friedman, Ph.D.; Larry D. Johnson Jr., D.A.; Timothy G. Lynch, Ph.D.; ...

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that there were three dozen students and staff infected with Covid-19 at the district. Three dozen students and staff were asked to quarantine after three people tested positive for the virus. 

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Within one week of reopening what school officials had hoped would be the start of the ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — As the district readies to begin phasing students and staff back into city schools for its big return on Monday, November 2 for hybrid learning (a rotation of in-person and virtual learning), students are just as pumped.

“I’m so ready to go back,” said Gigi Oates, a sixth-grader at Hackensack Middle School. “I want to learn in a school ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — After George Floyd’s Memorial Day death at the hands of Minneapolis police, his utterance of “I can’t breathe” became the rally cry of seas of disgruntled protesters who filled the streets of major cities around the country demanding justice for him, and all the black lives who have been victims of police brutality — a number of them American ...

GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- Is your perfectly-carved pumpkin being ravaged by local wildlife?

As Halloween draws closer, families are putting out jack-o-lanterns to celebrate, but, unfortunately, many of those pumpkins are being quickly devoured by squirrels.

If you don’t remember this being a problem in the past, there’s a lot of speculation as to why squirrels are foraging for food ...

NORTH JERSEY —The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation's ArtsBergen initiative joins thousands of arts organizations, programs and communities nationwide to celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month.

On October 23, the NNJCF's ArtsBergen initiative opens the second round of "The Daily Arts Dose" social media campaign for artists in northern New Jersey.

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Witches in black pointed hats stirring cauldrons. Sugar skulls and coffins. Endearing scarecrows. And, if the big, fake black spiders in their thickly-woven cobwebs aren’t enough to send tingles down your spine, there will be plenty of whimsical ghosts!

For the first year ever, the Hackensack Recreation Department is teaming up with the city Art Department to ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — The City in Motion is on a lucky streak.

During Sunday night’s Jersey Cash 5 jackpot drawing, a winning ticket holder raked in $694,658 after their ticket — which was purchased at ShopRite, located at 500 South River Street in Hackensack — matched all five numbers, New Jersey Lottery officials said in a press release.

The winning numbers were 08, ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation celebrates the five-year anniversary of Tackle Kids Cancer, a philanthropic initiative of the Children’s Cancer Institute at Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health, which has raised more than $10 million in support of research, treatment options, and patient care programs to ...

Nursing assistants will be limited to eight residents as a means of ensuring safe, effective care, while task force will examine workforce recruitment and retention.

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Come February, New ...

BLACKWOOD, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy abruptly left a press briefing Wednesday in Blackwood after learning that someone who he was in close proximity to on Saturday has tested positive for COVID-19.

It is unclear how many people the governor exposed over the weekend. 

Murphy, 63, was at a briefing set up outside the student center of Camden County College (CCC) to ...

Masks, gowns and other supplies are stockpiled, but some worry about staffing levels amid a national COVID-19 surge.

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No one anticipates the same surge of patients that flooded hospitals ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 69-year-old Hackensack man who struck a senior citizen and a woman in the parking lot of a business specializing in children’s birthday parties has been arrested and charged with assault by auto.

Before 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, the Paramus Police Department arrived at the parking lot of Catch Air on Route 4 East where they observed Gary Mongelli’s ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Hackensack school teacher has been charged with theft by deception after investigators say she solicited a few hundred thousand dollars from innocent investors in a Ponzi-type scheme.

On Tuesday, October 13, Suzette R. Hart, a 54-year-old Oradell woman who teaches ESL at Hackensack High School, was arrested and charged with one count of Theft By Deception, a ...

One executive fears a ‘perfect storm’ with higher demand amid possibility of more business closures, job losses.

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New Jersey’s biggest food bank is doubling its ...