Why were those sirens wailing? Patch recaps some of Essex County’s recent public safety, police, fire and EMS stories.

Austin, a founding trustee of the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race, is being mourned after her sudden ...

A 66-year-old East Hanover man was sentence to five years in prison on Friday, Jan. 24 after previously pleading guilty to running a school bus company that failed to perform drug tests and background ...

An owner of an Essex County-based school bus company was sentenced to five years in state prison for hiring unqualified ...

Great news for New Jersey homeowners: the values of their homes are going up and up. The median price of a home sold in New ...

New Jersey led the metro area in having the greatest decline in new foreclosures in 2024. See how each county performed.

Governor Murphy is precluded by term limits to run for re-election. The Office of Governor in New Jersey is highly coveted because of the broad powers vested in the office by our state’s constitution.

A New Jersey man has been convicted of conspiring to traffic more than a metric ton of fentanyl-related substances and other ...

"From my perspective, the judiciary is a talent-based organization," Judge Glenn A. Grant told the Law Journal. "We exist ...