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This might be the unluckiest bridge in New Jersey
If you tuned into New Jersey Fast Traffic on Thursday, you heard about huge troubles on the North Jersey Coast Line of NJ Transit. All train service along the entire line was suspended all day due to problems on the Raritan River Bridge. Service was finally restored early Friday morning.
Tolls going up on more Pennsylvania bridges
💲Tolls have not increased on DRPA crossings since 2011. 💲Several planned projects will be funded by the increase. 💲Tolls went up on the Hudson River crossings earlier this year. You can add the three Delaware River crossings from New Jersey into Philadelphia to the list of tolls...
NY and NJ McDonald’s now offering Kit Kat Banana Split McFlurry
McDonald's is offering a limited-time Kit Kat Banana Split MCFlurry, made with vanilla soft serve, real bananas, strawberries, and Kit Kat wafer bars, at participating restaurants in New Jersey and Long Island.
NYC weather alert: Thunderstorms, damaging winds threaten NY, NJ, CT l Forecast
NEW YORK - Be sure to have an umbrella ready for the Wednesday evening commute. After another 90-degree day, NYC faces a severe weather threat that could bring thunderstorms and wind gusts to NY, NJ, and CT. "We do have that severe thunderstorm watch. That is going to be in...
Stop & Shop to Close 32 Stores, Including 10 in New Jersey – Here’s Where
Bad news if you're a Stop & Shop lover. Grocery retailer, Stop & Shop has announced they are closing 32 locations in the tri-state area, including 10 of them in New Jersey. The company is moving forward with growth restructuring to improve the customer experience, so they're closing down under-performing locations. The good news is, employees at the impacted locations will be offered opportunities within the company.
New Jersey salt marsh sediments offer evidence of hurricanes back to the 1500s
A Rutgers University-New Brunswick-led research team employing an emerging technique to detect signs of past hurricanes in coastal sediments has found evidence of storms dating back more than 400 years. In doing so, they have confirmed an approach that could give them a better understanding of how the frequency of storms changes when the climate changes.
NJ has been blocking these sports bets since 2018
âš« You can't bet on all college games in New Jersey. Maybe you've changed your mind. Garden State voters rejected the proposal in 2021, but a new proposal aims to, once again, put a question on the ballot: Should New Jersey permit sports betting on all college games?. Since 2018,...
Why is New Jersey Transit so bad? Searching for answers
⬛ New Jersey Transit still plagued by massive delays. ⬛ Lawmakers are demanding a hearing on ongoing problems. Saying "commuters have had enough," a group of lawmakers are calling for legislative hearings into the problems that have derailed commuter schedules for months. The latest frustration for commuters was problems at...
Some companies support new type of hot leave – Should NJ?
Whether we want to accept it or not, it's been getting very hot lately. Not just in New Jersey, but pretty much everywhere around the globe. Now sure, there are some exceptions, and it is summer, so hotter temperatures are to be expected. For some, however, it's been getting too hot. So hot, in fact, that some companies have expressed interest in implementing some sort of hot weather leave.
Good or bad idea? School cellphone ban possibilities in New Jersey spawns mixed emotions
Anxious teens spiraling over social media posts. Distracted students checking their notifications in class. Kids recording unsuspecting classmates so they can humiliate them online. The damage caused by students using cellphones during school has become too costly, Middletown Township school board members announced last month during a public meeting —...
NJ kidnap victim’s smart move helped cops find car
🚨The woman pretended to be on the phone talking to a relative. 🚨 Dispatchers are trained to handle this type of call. 🚨 Police were able to locate the car as she approached the GWB. A woman secretly kept police on the phone for two hours Wednesday...
Someone in New Jersey just won $644,000 — was it you?
I don't know about you, but with the way my luck goes, I get excited when I win $10 or $20 on a scratch-off lottery ticket. And then it seems like almost every day, you read a story about someone winning a million dollars playing the lottery. As a matter of fact, that happened earlier this week when someone won $1.9 million at a ShopRite store at the Jersey Shore.
NJ taking on severe form of pneumonia … through public water systems
âš« People can fall ill by breathing in droplets of water containing the bacteria. âš« The threat is greater for people with weaker immune systems. âš« First-in-the-nation legislation has been sent to Gov. Murphy. It's up to Gov. Phil Murphy whether New Jersey will step up prevention and control efforts...
Dog trainers in NJ don’t have to be certified — should that change?
Just say you're a dog trainer, and voila, you're a dog trainer. There's no legal requirement that one be certified in order to be hired to teach a dog behaviors and skills. But advocates say it's time for that to change. And a bill introduced in Trenton paves the way for New Jersey to become the first state in the U.S. to make the move.
Big box store shopping in New Jersey just got smaller
In an ever ugly and sad trend another big box store announced that they are closing a chunk of their stores and trying to reorganize to stay above drowning in debt. National discount retailer Big Lots, with close to 1,400 stores nationally including twenty-seven in Monmouth and Ocean counties here in New Jersey, has announced that they are closing up to forty stores nationally and opening three more. Big Lots closed fifty-two stores in 2023 due to inferior performance.
Creepy NJ teacher loses certification for weird comments, state finds
EAST ORANGE — The state has revoked the teaching certification for a North Jersey English teacher after he made unsettling remarks to a female student. Alim A. Hasan's certificate to teach English was officially revoked in late June by the State Board of Examiners. A Division of Child Protection...
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