You’re gonna need a bigger waffle. 40,000 pounds of syrup was spilled on to the New Jersey Turnpike Tuesday morning in South Brunswick. State Police say the syrup inside the truck shifted when the driver attempted to make a turn, causing the rig to jack knife and spill the load onto the highway. No major…
There will be no drilling for oil or gas off the coast of New Jersey anytime soon. President Barack Obama permanently banned the exploration for fuel off many coastlines, including New Jersey, on Tuesday. The move was seen as s pre-emptive strike against President-elect Donald Trump who has spoken in favor of fuel exploration in…
The unemployment rate improved in New Jersey in November. The latest numbers were released and the state added 4,700 jobs, dropping the jobless rate to 5 percent. Year to date the state has seen an increase of 23,300 jobs. The biggest growth in November came from professional and business services industry. The public sector lost…
Two controversial bills died in Trenton Monday night. A bill that would have allowed Governor Christie to profit on a book deal while still in office died in Trenton and will not be considered by lawmakers. A second bill that would have given municipalities the right to put their legal ads online and save money…
All of New Jersey’s electoral votes were pledged to Hillary Clinton on Monday. New Jersey’s members of the electoral college pledged their votes properly to Clinton, but it didn’t matter….Donald Trump has still won the election. A protest was held outside of the statehouse in Trenton as the electoral votes were pledged for Clinton.
Lavallette has spent $387,000 for a new lifeguard station, and now it’s closed due to mold. Lavallette officials closed the new building shortly after it opened due to the presence of mold inside the building. Mayor Walter LaCicero told the Asbury Park Press that there is the potential for litigation in connection with this new…
Gasoline prices have inched up in the Garden State in advance of two holiday weekends. Mid Atlantic AAA reports that gas prices have increased by one cent to $2.33 a gallon, which is ten cents higher than the national average. New Jersey enacted a 23 cent per gallon tax increase on November 1st.
A teenage girl was killed over the weekend when she fell from an overpass on the Garden State Parkway and was struck by traffic. State Police say it’s unclear why the 15 year old girl was on the overpass before she fell onto the Parkway in Nutley. The incident occurred at milepost 151.1; she was…
A proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour is dead until at least 2018. Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto says democrats have given up on their fight to get the wage increased; they will try again when a new governor takes office in 2018. Business groups oppose the wage hike saying the…
Democrats in Trenton are starting to line up to wage a war against a controversial bill endorsed by Governor Christie that would allow towns to pull legal notices from newspapers and put them on their websites. Some democrats say the bill is pure vindictiveness taken by the Governor against the newspapers. Many town officials say…