Two women, one from East Newark, should have stayed home one early morning last week —…
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Tony Mondaro joins Kevin tonight @ 7 p.m. for weekend storm update
Tony Mondaro joins The Observer’s Kevin Canessa tonight at 7 p.m. ET to discuss the pending…
ALERT — Street sweeping suspended Jan. 18 & 19 in Harrison
Street sweeping is suspended Jan. 18 and Jan. 19 in Harrison, the town said in a…
VIDEO — Kearny’s 2024 Reorganization Meeting
Please note — this video was filmed by the Town of Kearny using Zoom. We had…
NJDOT implementing travel restrictions for Jan. 6
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti has issued a commercial vehicle travel restriction…
Wittpenn Bridge closed most of this weekend
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) today announced a full closure of the Route 7/Wittpenn…
Get ready for potential long-term traffic nightmare on Newark-JC Turnpike
One lane of CR 508/Newark-Jersey City Turnpike eastbound between I-280 and U.S. Post Office Drive is…
Doyle in, Zapata out, as clerk to Hudson commissioners
Kearny Mayor Carol Jean Doyle has a new position to add to her resume and it…
BCPO: Nutley man awaiting trial for vehicular homicide now facing charges he sexually assaulted minor
A Nutley man who was charged with reckless vehicular homicide in the 2019 death of an…
KPD: Good Samaritan helping woman in distress has car rammed 3 times by drunken driver just outside HQ
No good deed goes unpunished and one Kearny Good Samaritan learned that the hard way this…
Man, 37, shot dead in Belleville; 4-year-old also shot in same incident: ECPO
A 37-year-old man was shot and killed in the afternoon of Dec. 16 on Mill Street…
KPD: Three 14-year-old boys arrested following attempted Kia theft; there were others same day
Throughout the night and early morning Dec. 11-12, multiple Kias were stolen as a result…
Essex County sees major drop in homicides so far in 2023: Stephens
The homicide rate in Essex County year to date has dropped to its lowest number in…
Police: Harrison man training to become special cop, currently a dispatcher, arrested and charged with possessing 1K+ images of child pornography
Update at 12:25 p.m.: Records indicate Lewis was released by court order today. A Harrison man…