Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:26 PM EST
Small aircraft flying over the Hudson River near New York City are now following new flight rules.
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:05 AM EDT
Loiterers and criminals on the nighttime streets of New Jersey's largest city have some company — concerned citizens and government workers who are cruising neighborhoods in an effort to reduce crime.
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Mon Oct 5, 2009 1:47 PM EDT
The old media story for politicians: Television show slams city, outraged mayor pens complaint, controversy fades away.
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Sat Oct 3, 2009 7:44 PM EDT
An intimate, soccer-only stadium rising in a careworn former industrial city is expected to be the crown jewel of Major League Soccer and one of the keys to a local redevelopment project.
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Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:16 AM EDT
Pop superstar Michael Jackson feared the ravages of old age, sought the company of sycophants and appeared to be abusing prescription drugs and cosmetic surgery nearly a decade before his death, according to a new book by a former adviser.
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Fri Aug 7, 2009 4:34 PM EDT
Job losses are undermining turnaround efforts in New Jersey's largest city, where the unemployment rate reached a 15-year high in June.
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Sat Jun 6, 2009 4:53 PM EDT
Newark Mayor Cory Booker and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are blazing a new trail in political discourse from opposite sides of the country as they build huge Internet followings on Twitter's fast-growing social network.
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:06 PM EDT
Ensuring undocumented workers get paid and improving worker safety are two priorities for the Department of Labor, its first Hispanic secretary said Wednesday.
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Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:01 PM EDT
When Shalga Hightower remembers her daughter Iofemi, she doesn't dwell on the brutal attack on the 20-year-old and three of her friends in a Newark schoolyard.
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:39 PM EDT
Organizers and participants in the nation's only working cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions called the fledgling attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a success Wednesday.
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Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:02 PM EDT
Business leaders at the Port of New York and New Jersey say the global economic crisis is slowing activity at the East Coast's largest port complex.
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:08 PM EST
A woman who says she was deceived and abandoned by her angry friends in the woods of northern New Jersey on a frigid night bears scars both physical and emotional from her ordeal, her lawyer said Friday.
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Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:26 AM EST
The black carcasses of dead starlings still pepper the snowy roads and lawns of central New Jersey's rural Griggstown community three days after federal officials used a pesticide to kill as many as 5,000 of the birds.
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:13 PM EST
Murders and shootings apparently have declined in New Jersey's largest city for the second consecutive year, an indication that its mayor is making progress on a pledge to reduce violent street crime.
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:19 PM EST
James Aiken and his family will spend the holiday with relatives in northern New Jersey, but not by choice.
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Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:41 AM EDT
Taking urban bicycling to a new level, Nik Wallenda slowly pedaled among the city's morning commuters — about 135 feet above the street.
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