Mobile shower trailer rolls into Newark, bringing ‘spa-like’ experience to...
A nonprofit group has started offering free showers for the homeless who gather in the small park behind Newark Penn Station. Once a month, volunteers with Archangel Raphael’s Mission park a silver...
View ArticleRutgers program trains next generation of growers
A program out of Rutgers University is training residents who want to swap their desk jobs for careers in farming. In the Garden State, the average age of farmers is nearing 60 — that’s nearly a decade...
View Article‘Like hell,’ NJ prison cells reached up to 94 degrees this summer, watchdog...
Many of New Jersey’s prisoners suffered through stifling temperatures this summer, with a third housed in non-air conditioned units that reached as high as 94 degrees, a new report by the state Office...
View ArticleNJ's top court to decide: When can judges keep a dying, incapacitated person...
The New Jersey compassionate release law that took effect last February was supposed to make it easier for gravely ill or dying inmates to get out of prison early and save taxpayers the cost of their...
View ArticleDeadline nears for 17,000 more immigrants to get aid from NJ’s excluded...
Nearly half the 35,000 residents who applied for New Jersey’s excluded worker fund still haven’t received any help — but have until the end of the month to prove they were shut out of other pandemic...
View ArticleNJ immigrant groups geared up to greet plane of migrants. It never arrived.
Within hours of hearing a plane carrying asylum seekers might land in New Jersey, volunteers and organizers had assembled at the Teterboro Airport — ready with diapers, food and greeting signs stuffed...
View ArticleNJ minimum wage going up to $14.13 in 2023
The minimum wage in New Jersey will increase to $14.13 in 2023. It's slightly more than expected due to inflation. For the last three years, the state has increased the minimum wage by $1 under a low...
View ArticleNJ governor conditionally vetoes bill to improve working conditions for temp...
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has conditionally vetoed a bill to improve working conditions for 130,000 temporary workers, who fuel a quarter of the state’s warehouse industry.Murphy recommended...
View ArticleNJ pulls final vote on temp worker protections bill
Immigrant groups are outraged after a bill extending protections for temporary workers was pulled from a final vote on the Senate floor. “This time they have chosen to stand with multinational...
View Article10 years after Sandy, NJ eyes development rules that expect more flooding...
With the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaching, New Jersey officials are reviving a plan to make developers and towns consider the risks of future flooding brought on by climate change.The...
View ArticleNJ's long-fought temp worker bill delayed after Dems pull support
This week, a bill to improve conditions for New Jersey's temp workers was up for a final vote before the state Senate. The measure was expected to pass by a small margin and head to Governor Phil...
View ArticleMedieval Times sued its NJ union over trademark violations. Now the union is...
The union representing New Jersey performers at Medieval Times has filed two unfair labor practice charges against the dinner entertainment chain, after the company sued it over alleged trademark...
View ArticleIn Newark, a community grapples with ‘manmade, urban flooding’
Residents of Newark's Ivy Hill neighborhood say their homes routinely flood during major storms — a result, they say, of decades of nearby development that didn’t consider their neighborhood.“We're not...
View ArticleNewark steps up pressure to delay Seton Hall's expansion plans over flooding...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka asked the South Orange Planning Board this week to delay approving Seton Hall’s plans to expand its sports complex — as Newark neighbors raise concerns about flooding they blame...
View ArticleStaffing agencies ramp up lobbying efforts as NJ temp bill nears vote
Temporary staffing agencies that operate in New Jersey have ramped up their lobbying efforts this week to stop a measure they say would over-regulate the industry and hurt their business.The latest...
View ArticleFEMA gave 296 NY & NJ Ida victims extended rental assistance. Advocates say...
When theremnants of Hurricane Ida struck inSeptember 2021, FEMA distributed short-term housing aid to 19,500 displaced residents in New Jersey and New York — enough to pay up to two months of...
View ArticleMore NJ homes are owned by institutions, new report finds. And that's driving...
A new report in New Jersey says more of the state’s housing stock is increasingly owned by companies and other institutions. The report was released by the Department of Community Affairs and found...
View ArticleAdvocates demand fixes from FEMA after few Ida survivors get housing help
Advocates working with survivors of Hurricane Ida want FEMA to immediately provide more housing assistance to displaced residents in New Jersey. Nine groups sent a letter to FEMA representatives on...
View ArticleNJ's new food security advocate: We need to think bigger than meal programs
New Jersey governor Phil Murphy says he wants to end food insecurity in the state … where the Food Research and Action Center reports one in 12 households don’t have reliable access to affordable,...
View ArticleNJ FamilyCare health insurance open to all eligible children — regardless of...
New Jersey now allows all income-eligible children – regardless of immigration status – to enroll in the state’s health insurance program.Gov. Phil Murphy announced the expansion of the state’s Cover...
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