Around New Jersey
By MADISON MILLER - NJ STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
June 5, 2025
NEWARK, NJ — New Jersey households, newly burdened with higher electricity costs, will receive $100 to $250 credits from the state, parceled over six months, to help pay the bills, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Thursday in Newark.Typical households will receive $16.60 per month from July-December.
NEWARK, NJ - Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka filed a lawsuit Tuesday morning against Alina Habba, interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, and Ricky Patel, special agent in charge at Homeland Security Investigations, charging they subjected him to false arrest and malicious prosecution on May 9 outside the ...
NEW JERSEY — The conversation around supporting employee mental health is growing and, for many companies, workplace wellness programs have evolved from a perk to a priority.“Including well-being programs as part of a company's culture is essential because it demonstrates a commitment to the ...
SOMERVILLE, NJ - High clouds, blue sky and temperatures in the low- to mid-70s made for a perfect race day as hundreds of amateur and professional racers descended on Main Street for the 80th annual Tour of Somerville, a high-profile international cycling event and Memorial Day tradition that drew ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Francesca Mani, a Westfield teen who has been advocating for stronger laws surrounding AI, was with President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump when the President signed into law the “Take it Down” bill on Monday.The new law bans nonconsensual online publication of sexually ...
LONG BEACH ISLAND REGION - Memorial weekend has arrived, and the fish are in Long Beach Island waters for the boats and captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association. Now that the weather is cooperating, look for some serious fishing. Fish in the area include striped bass, black sea bass, ...
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - The New Jersey Conference of Mayors (NJCM) marked a major milestone Tuesday with a celebratory ribbon-cutting to open its 60th Annual Spring Conference at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City.The Spring Conference is NJCM’s premier event, bringing together local ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – William Tate IV rolled into New Iberia, La., population 28,555 by last count, in a giant purple bus last year to check out the country’s oldest rice mill that’s so revered it stands out even in sugarcane country.Tate, the then-president of Louisiana State University who was on a ...
NEWARK, NJ - Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka appeared in federal court for a status conference on Thursday morning following his arrest last week when he was handcuffed and charged with federal trespassing at an immigrant detention center. A status conference is a court-ordered meeting, often held ...
NEW JERSEY - NJ Transit has an alternate service plan in place, should the rail strike continue.The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), which represents roughly 460 engineers, went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday, which was the deadline for a contract renewal between NJ Transit ...
NEWARK, NJ - Sharpe James, a controversial Democratic New Jersey politician who led Newark for 20 years as mayor, died today at 89 after a series of illnesses.James served as the city's 37th mayor from 1986 to 2006 after succeeding former Newark mayor Kenneth Gibson. He went on to fill the ...
NEWARK - Cleanup of the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site in Newark continues to be slow moving, as the building of a processing facility – something needed before the Lower Passaic River can be dredged – is tied up in legal negotiations. Water and sediment samples have been taken by the U.S.
WHARTON, NJ – Two westbound lanes of Route 80 in Wharton, closed for sinkhole repairs in mid-March, will not be reopened until the end of May, almost a month longer than initially predicted, according to the state Department of Transportation (NJDOT).Two of the road's three westbound lanes were ...
SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY, NJ - As of Wednesday morning, April 23, 2025, the fast-moving wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, which started on Tuesday in the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area, continues to burn, but significant progress has been made. Here's the latest information from the New ...
TRENTON, NJ — New Jerseyans soon might have an incentive to forget about their plastic reusable shopping totes, as some lawmakers are pushing for a return to paper bags in grocery stores.The state in 2022 banned paper and single-use plastic bags at large retailers in a step to combat climate ...
ROXBURY, NJ – Roads throughout the area are likely to remain clogged with detouring Route 80 traffic until mid-May as crews continue to repair sinkholes in Wharton, a situation that has prompted the Federal Small Business Administration (SBA) to offer low-interest loans to small businesses impacted ...
ROXBURY, NJ - The heavy traffic on Route 10 and Route 46 in Roxbury - caused by eastbound Route 80 drivers getting off to avoid the highway’s closure for sinkhole repairs in Wharton - is likely to continue through mid-May, officials said on Friday (March 28).In an update on the Route 80 situation, ...
ROXBURY, NJ – State officials are working with navigation apps Waze and Google Maps to reduce the number of drivers diverted from Route 80 onto Roxbury’s local roads due to sinkhole closures in Wharton, according to Roxbury Mayor Shawn Potillo. Potillo shared details of the effort following a March ...
NEWARK, NJ — CivicsNJ, a new, non-partisan coalition that describes itself as an organization “dedicated to advancing civic learning and engagement” launched earlier this month at a ceremony in Newark.“The purpose of CivicsNJ is to share information, connect teachers and other service leaders to ...
NEW PROVIDENCE/NEW BRUNSWICK – Astronauts flitting around on the moon will one day be able to hold conversations, send texts and probably watch cat videos if they so desire, thanks to the Nokia Bell Labs' latest technological innovation.Employees gathered at the company's Union County campus ...
ROXBURY, NJ - “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” wrote William Shakespeare. So, it seems, can sinkholes on major highways. For two months, Gov. Phil Murphy has battled the Trump Administration in court and at press conferences over policies he's called chaotic and unconstitutional.
WAYNE, NJ – A call to the police from a concerned citizen in Wayne, and then another in Pompton Lakes about the sale of drugs has led to one of the largest drug busts in Passaic County in recent memory. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Wayne Police Chief Joseph Rooney, Sheriff Thomas ...
NEWARK, NJ — The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) has released its list of 60 nominees for the 2025 public vote, which is open through April 15.The inductees will be announced at the end of June, with the induction ceremony scheduled for the fall.TAPinto is proud to be a media sponsor of the New ...
TRENTON, NJ — A legislative committee signed off on a bill to require New Jersey schools to teach elementary school students cursive handwriting.The legislation is the first step toward reinstituting a statewide policy to teach cursive handwriting to all students by third grade, a move that ...
TRENTON, NJ — Potholes around the state could soon be on the road to recovery. The New Jersey Department of Transportation's (NJDOT) annual statewide pothole repair campaign starts Monday."Over the next couple of months, our priority will be repairing the most significant potholes from this ...
ROXBURY, NJ – The state is moving forward with a plan to divert eastbound Route 80 traffic onto some westbound lanes, a project that would alleviate traffic detouring through Roxbury while workers finish shoring-up the unstable ground below the highway in nearby Wharton, said Roxbury Mayor Shawn ...
NEW JERSEY — The average property tax bill in New Jersey surpassed $10,000 for the first time ever in 2024.The data was made public in Governor Phil Murphy’s “Budget in Brief” summary of his $58.1 billion annual spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.New Jerseyans now on average pay ...
WHARTON, NJ – Almost half of the unstable areas below Route 80’s eastbound lanes have been solidified, but an end to the project that forced the lanes’ closure on Feb. 10 remains “difficult to determine," said the state today.In an update released this morning (March 5), the state Department of ...