NEW JERSEY

Catastrophe has been averted after a dramatic fire near a chemical plant burned through the night and into Saturday morning in northern New Jersey.

Passaic Mayor Hector Lora told residents in a video posted on Facebook to stay away from the area and keep their windows closed.

It's not yet clear what caused the fire or if anyone was injured.

The federal government will deploy six teams of military medical personnel to hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico.

Murphy said the state is seeing nearly 35,000 new cases a day and in the past two weeks, more than 10,000 residents have required hospitalization due to Covid.

The Biden administration says it will hold its first offshore wind auction next month.

Online prices increased 3.1% in December compared with the prior year and rose 0.8% month over month, according to Adobe Analytics.

Grocery stores are seeing a fresh round of empty shelves, with winter weather and the omicron surge adding to earlier supply-chain woes.

An indistinguishable effort to downplay the pandemic emerges once again.

Governors across the U.S. took sweeping action during earlier surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, but are taking a much different approach during the record-setting caseloads caused by the omicron variant.

A deluge of applications has forced some states to shut their federal rental assistance programs earlier than expected.

Edmonton captain and reigning league MVP Connor McDavid has been placed on on NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list.

Airlines have canceled more than 19,000 U.S. flights since Christmas Eve

For Black women, childbirth can be a matter of life or death. Some lawmakers want to address the disparity.

Antonio Brown is no longer a Tampa Bay Buccaneer, says head coach, after the wide receiver left the field during Sunday's 28-24 win against the New York Jets.

The Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas cruise ship is prepared for its next voyage as it is docked on December 24, 2021, in Bayonne, New Jersey. The CDC increased its travel warning for cruise ships to the highest level. The agency is currently investigating or observing dozens of cruise ships that have had Covid outbreaks. The CDC advised people who do decide to travel on a cruise ship get vaccinated before their trip and receive a booster dose if eligible. The stocks of Royal Caribbean Cruise, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Carnival were down on the news.

In an effort to break down misconceptions, a school is pairing students with police for a day of intense bonding.

Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News says it will close after a police raid on its offices and arrests of seven current and former staff members, in the latest blow to the city's rapidly-shrinking press freedoms.

This year's supply chain crisis has hit companies hard as bottlenecks built up and industrial production failed to meet a post-pandemic spike in demand.

Newly released video shows a security officer leaping over conveyor belt rollers and saving a 2-month-old boy who stopped breathing at a New Jersey airport security checkpoint.

Verizon and AT&T are scheduled to start using the spectrum for 5G on Jan. 5.

About 30 minutes after they began their Santa tour, the fire crew saw smoke coming from the eaves of a three-story single family home.

A bill that would give tax relief to Atlantic City’s casinos is being considered by New Jersey lawmakers.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey say they have tested positive for COVID-19.

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“I immediately liked his style.”

The new, highly mutated omicron Covid-19 variant now accounts for an estimated 13% of all cases in New York and New Jersey, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The variant, which was first detected in southern Africa about a month ago, has spread to 36 states and 75 countries, accounting for roughly 3% of all cases across the U.S., CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during a White House Covid-19 briefing Wednesday. "We expect the proportion of omicron cases here in the United States to continue to grow in the coming weeks," she said.

An aquarium in New Jersey features a diving Santa and an underwater Christmas tree.

An aquarium in New Jersey features a diving Santa and an underwater Christmas tree.

The U.S. solar market posted record results during the third quarter, but supply chain issues and political tensions are weighing on the industry.

Peloton wants users to know its fitness equipment can improve one's health — not lead to complications, which was implied in the reboot of "Sex and the City."

Who will actually benefit from a new progressive climate policy?

A Nigerian woman living in the US never imagined that leprosy still existed in her home country.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy appear on "Face the Nation" Sunday.

Explosive economic growth spurred by pandemic relief programs is helping the states dig out of deep financial troubles.

Capturing the intensity of a crowd’s adulation for Donald Trump

"Saliva was flying back and forth between us during debate prep," Christie told PBS' Margaret Hoover about how he thinks Trump gave him the virus.

Amazon's cloud-computing arm was hit with an outage that lasted almost all day Tuesday, knocking offline many web-connected devices and popular sites.

Amazon has been fined 1.13 billion euros ($1.28 billion) by Italian antitrust regulators for abusing its market dominance.

The U.S. is working to resettle 38,000 Afghans temporarily housed at military bases around the country, including 11,000 at one in New Jersey.

Marc Lore wants to revolutionize how Americans order meals to their homes.

Evanescence and Halestorm are on tour together, playing the Prudential Center in Newark and the BB&T Pavilion in Camden in December.

The biggest question is whether current, available vaccines will prevent severe cases spread by the Omicron variant.

The biggest question is whether current, available vaccines will prevent severe cases spread by the Omicron variant.

While some patients had recently traveled in southern Africa, others had no travel history, suggesting that community transmission is underway in the U.S.

The New Jersey statehouse requirement for visitors to show proof of COVID-19 or a negative test is still in effect after Republican lawmakers defied it ahead of a voting session Thursday.

Job growth was expected to have been strong in November, and employers continued to boost wages to attract workers in an incredibly tight labor market.

If you’ve turned on a television in the last three years, chances are you’ve been inundated with advertisements for sports betting, and not only during game broadcasts.

Ghislaine Maxwell's defence team try to poke holes in an alleged victim's testimony at her trial.

Some states are prohibiting the use of county jails for migrants, but ICE simply moves detainees facing deportation to friendlier locations.

U.S. expected to announce tougher COVID-19 testing requirements for all travelers

Eighty-six gamblers in New Jersey thought they'd found the Holy Grail of sports betting: being able to bet on a game that had already ended.

Amazon said it rang up record sales between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, bucking the trend in the broader retail industry.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of TV’s “Dr. Oz Show,” says he is running for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat as a Republican.

Louis Santiago struck a pedestrian, left the scene, returned for the body, and took it home where he discussed it with his mother, officials said.

The FBI’s confirmation last week that it was looking at a spot next to a New Jersey landfill as a possible burial site for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is the latest chapter in a search that began when he disappeared in 1975.

Weeks after a “red wave” slammed New Jersey and Virginia, Democrats are still reeling. To quote Democratic strategist Lanae Erickson, “If House elections had to be held on the day

The FBI's confirmation Friday that it was looking at a former New Jersey landfill as a possible burial site for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is the latest development in a search that began when he disappeared in 1975.

The new search for Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in Jersey City underneath a bridge is just the latest in one of law enforcement's wildest goose chases.

State College police believe the 19-year-old’s death was accidental, but her mother told a New Jersey publication she still has plenty of questions.

JetBlue is the latest airline to offer crews incentives to work holiday trips, after similar efforts by Southwest and American.

Some Democrats chastise the left for driving away moderate voters, but they fail to consider why their own base isn’t turning out in larger numbers.

Such punitive measures been in headlines in recent years, after several Western governments retracted the citizenship of people who allegedly joined Islamist terror groups.

New Jersey’s red-hot sports betting industry smashed its own national record in October for the highest amount of bets taken in a single month, topping $1.3 billion.

A man who was wrongly convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in a triple murder case has died.

Brad Marchard scored twice and Jeremy Swayman made 27 saves and the Boston Bruins beat New Jersey 5-2, ending the Devils’ three-game winning streak.

An elite but often-underwater beach town at the Jersey Shore is looking for its own solutions to back bay flooding, deciding it can’t wait for state and federal officials to agree on a fix.

A Pennsylvania woman is suing the manufacturer of a popular online slots game.

A lawsuit in which workers accuse a Hindu organization of human trafficking for luring them from India to build a temple in New Jersey for as little as $1.20 a day has widened to four other states.

America's commercial casinos are marking the industry’s best quarter ever and pushing U.S. casino revenue past what it was for all of 2020.

New Jersey Republican Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign denies that there was fraud in this year’s governor’s election but says the margin could shrink enough to warrant a recount.

Republicans are increasingly optimistic about flipping governor’s offices in key battleground states next year.

New Jersey’s longtime state Senate president, Democrat Steve Sweeney lost reelection, falling to a Republican newcomer who spent little money and underscoring Democratic woes in the Biden era.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has won reelection over Republican Jack Ciattarelli.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican Jack Ciattarelli were virtually deadlocked early Wednesday after a campaign centered on the incumbent’s progressive policies and handling of the pandemic.

The rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested in New York City on federal drug charges.

Merck fell out of the race to develop COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year but could vault to head of the pack for treatments in 2022.

Hard Rock wants to build a casino in or near New York City, even as it moves forward with a plan to build another one about 8 miles away in northern New Jersey.

Forecasters are warning that a nor'easter barreling up the U.S. coast could bring flooding, hurricane-force wind gusts and widespread power outages to New England.

A group studying the economics of offshore wind energy in the U.S. says building and operating the nascent industry will be worth $109 billion to businesses in its supply chain over the next 10 years.

Jin Young Ko is one round away from winning the Founders Cup and joining some exclusive company on the LPGA Tour.

Jin Young Ko had a three-stroke lead with four holes left Friday when second-round play in the LPGA Tour’s Cognizant Founders Cup was suspended because of darkness.

One week after Jin Young Ko lost a chance to win on the LPGA Tour, the South Korean star is right back at it.

Britney Spears’ fight to end the conservatorship that controlled vast aspects of her life is putting the spotlight on ongoing efforts in the states to reform laws that advocates say too often harm the very people they were meant to protect.

Merck will spend about $11.5 billion to buy Acceleron Pharma and its potential treatment for high blood pressure in vessels that connect the lungs and heart.

A new study finds pension systems for state government workers are in their best shape since the Great Recession.

The morning after one of the most intense tornadoes recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the largest dairy farm in the state, owners Marianne and Wally Eachus looked at each other and just cried.

The morning after one of the most intense tornadoes recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the largest dairy farm in the state, owners Marianne and Wally Eachus looked at each other and just cried.

President Joe Biden has approved major disaster declarations greenlighting federal aid for people six New Jersey counties and five New York counties affected by devastating flooding last week from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

A major maritime industry association has backed plans for a global surcharge on carbon emissions from shipping to help fund the sector’s shift toward climate-friendly fuels.

The destruction left by the remnants of Hurricane Ida have officials and experts agreeing that infrastructure including roads, sewers and housing in New York and New Jersey must be quickly improved.

Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a hardhit Louisiana neighborhood on Friday and told residents “I know you’re hurting."

Storm evacuees in Manville, a central New Jersey town along the rain-swollen Raritan River, told the same story.

Renowned podcast host, comedian and UFC commentator Joe Rogan says he is negative for COVID-19, just two days after announcing he had tested positive for the virus.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, dozens of documentaries have been made, concerning the events that led up to and took place on that day.

Police are going door to door and drawing up lists of the missing as the death toll edges higher from the catastrophic flooding set off in the Northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida blew through the mid-Atlantic states with at least two tornadoes, heavy winds and drenching rains.

Authorities say a New Jersey woman with the Instagram handle AntiVaxMomma sold several hundred fake COVID-19 vaccination cards at $200 a pop to New York City-area jab dodgers, including people working in hospitals and nursing homes.

It’s hard to believe it’s nearly been 20 years since Sept. 11, 2001.

Residents across the waterlogged Northeast are clearing mud and tearing out soggy carpets after deluges dropped by Tropical Storm Henri.