A NJ Assemblyman Says Illegal Immigration Costs $8.2 Billion a Year. Economists Say That’s Not the Whole Ledger.

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The Jersey City Firm That Grew 150x Just Made the Inc. 5000 for a Fourth Time

Valasys Media, the B2B marketing and data intelligence firm...

A Kearny Company Just Helped Make Launching Your Own Cell Network a Turnkey Operation

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A Warren County Branding Agency Just Bought the Company That Wraps Its Clients’ Trucks

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A NJ Assemblyman Says Illegal Immigration Costs $8.2 Billion a Year. Economists Say That’s Not the Whole Ledger.

Assemblyman Paul Kanitra's new report puts a precise dollar figure on what illegal immigration costs New Jersey taxpayers. Independent tax researchers...

The Springsteen Center Wants You to Read His Lyrics Like Poetry, Not Just Sing Along

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The 20 Moments That Built New Jersey Devils History

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Jenkinson’s Boardwalk Turns the Sand Into a Free Concert Venue Every Week This Summer

Between a classic hits series on the sand, a...

The Garden State’s Farms Are Still Doing the Heavy Lifting, and These 19 Prove It

From a fifth generation family stand in Wyckoff to...

Collingswood Apartment Complex Locked Down for Nearly Three Hours After Reports of Gunfire

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A Mijenta Co-founder Is Bringing His Tequila Master Class to a Jersey City Kitchen

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The 20 Moments That Built New Jersey Devils History

From a franchise that once got dismissed on national television as a Mickey Mouse operation to three Stanley Cup banners hanging in Newark, here is the definitive countdown of the goals, hits, and hires that...

A New Brunswick Supplement Brand Just Signed the Bodybuilder Who Grew Up Idolizing It

ANIMAL, the hardcore supplement brand born out of Central Jersey, has added IFBB Pro Regan Grimes to its athlete roster, closing the loop on a relationship that started when a teenage Grimes first discovered the...

Schwarber Hits Two Into the Corn, Phillies Rout Twins 7-1 in the Field of Dreams

Kyle Schwarber launched a pair of home runs into the Iowa cornfield, Aaron Nola looked every bit like himself again, and the Phillies used a night built around nostalgia to claw back into playoff position...

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The Springsteen Center Wants You to Read His Lyrics Like Poetry, Not Just Sing Along

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music is launching The Lyric Lab, a new discussion series that treats individual songs as...

Laurita Winery Trades Its Vineyard for a Tropical Island This Weekend

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The Springsteen Center Wants You to Read His Lyrics Like Poetry, Not Just Sing Along

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Mount Olive Sends Summer Out With Fireworks, 18 Food Trucks, and a 48 Ounce Barbecue Bucket

Mount Olive Township's Food Truck and Fireworks Festival returns...

Haddon Avenue Turns Into a Three Decade Time Machine for Summer of Love

Haddon Township's Summer of Love Music Festival returns to a closed...

New Jersey’s Breweries Are Done Just Pouring Pints This August

Between stand-up comedy tours, Mario Kart tournaments, oyster pop-ups,...

Jake Thistle Brought His American Idol Momentum to the Lawn Outside the Springsteen Center

The Paramus born singer songwriter, fresh off a Top...

New Jersey’s Complete Guide to This Weekend and the Week Ahead

From a month long sunflower festival in Lambertville to...

Middletown’s Community Theater Troupe Is Casting the Show Many Call Broadway’s Finest

The MAC Players are holding open auditions for Gypsy,...

Pier Village’s Free Tuesday Jazz Nights Are Building Toward a Full Day Festival Finale

Every Tuesday evening in August, Pier Village's oceanfront Carousel...

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Division Street Turns Into a 40-Tent Open Air Market This Sunday

The Downtown Somerville Artisan Market returns this weekend, closing the pedestrian corridor to traffic for a full afternoon of handmade goods, live music, and...

Division Street Turns Into a 40-Tent Open Air Market This Sunday

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New Jersey’s Breweries Are Done Just Pouring Pints This August

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The Woodbridge Cookie Brand Born From One Bad Gluten-Free Bite Just Hit 1,100 Stores

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Collingswood’s Century-Old Dry Town Status Just Cleared Its Biggest Hurdle Yet

A grassroots petition drive has finished collecting signatures to...

Explore New Jersey

A NJ Assemblyman Says Illegal Immigration Costs $8.2 Billion a Year. Economists Say That’s Not the Whole Ledger.

Assemblyman Paul Kanitra's new report puts a precise dollar figure on what illegal immigration costs New Jersey taxpayers. Independent tax researchers say the number...

A Northvale Nonprofit and a National Native American Group Are Building an Unlikely Coalition

The Italian American One Voice Coalition and the Native American Guardian's Association are opening their long running Solidarity Session series to a broader network...

Berkeley Heights YMCA Triples Its Parkinson’s Exercise Program to Three Days a Week

The Summit Area YMCA is expanding its Parkinson's specific wellness programming at its Berkeley Heights branch, adding two new PWR!Moves classes alongside its existing...

A 400-Foot Wall on Broad Street Now Tells the Story of Newark’s Women

The latest episode of NJ Spotlight News's "Painting Community" documentary series goes inside "The Golden Life," a sweeping public mural celebrating the pride, resilience, and everyday...

Odunlami Law Makes the Inc. 5000, Then Opens a New Jersey Family Law Practice Built to Catch What Immigration Court Can’t

Odunlami Law has landed on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list at No. 1,393 nationally, and used the milestone to formally launch a dedicated New...

The Jersey City Firm That Grew 150x Just Made the Inc. 5000 for a Fourth Time

Valasys Media, the B2B marketing and data intelligence firm headquartered on the Jersey City waterfront, has landed on Inc.'s 2026 list of America's fastest...

A Kearny Company Just Helped Make Launching Your Own Cell Network a Turnkey Operation

Helix Wireless, the New Jersey based IoT connectivity firm, has partnered with BeQuick and OXIO to combine hardware, billing, and network infrastructure into a...

The Springsteen Center Wants You to Read His Lyrics Like Poetry, Not Just Sing Along

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music is launching The Lyric Lab, a new discussion series that treats individual songs as primary source documents,...

Laurita Winery Trades Its Vineyard for a Tropical Island This Weekend

The Luau Festival returns to Laurita Winery for two full days of hula and Samoan fire knife performances, tropical food trucks, and vineyard wagon tours, closing...

A Cherry Hill Family’s Door Got Kicked In for Someone Else’s Warrant. It’s Part of a Bigger Pattern.

A homeowner says U.S. Marshals forced their way into a Cherry Hill home without showing a warrant to arrest a contractor working there on...

Today: Storms Build This Afternoon, Clear Out Tonight

Highest risk along and southeast of the I-95 corridor between 5 and 7 PM New Jersey Weather: Storms Tonight, Then a Beautiful Midweek Break ...

A Warren County Branding Agency Just Bought the Company That Wraps Its Clients’ Trucks

KickCharge Creative, the home services branding agency behind some of the trades industry's most recognizable logos, has acquired JumpSpark, the fleet management company it...

New Jersey Puts $7.5 Million Behind Getting Residents Into Construction Careers and Onto the Internet

The state has awarded nearly $7.5 million across two workforce initiatives, one expanding construction career access for women and minorities, the other building digital...

An Assemblyman Mapped Every Pork Barrel Item in NJ’s Budget. Here’s What the Pins Actually Show.

Assemblyman Rob Clifton turned New Jersey's newly released list of legislative earmarks into an interactive map, and the geography tells a pointed story about...

The Newark Network That Reaches 3.5 Million Caribbean Viewers Is Now Building a Bridge to Africa

TEMPO Networks, the Caribbean media company headquartered in Newark for nearly two decades, is marking its 21st anniversary by launching TEMPO Africa, a new...
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Marc Maron, Renée Zellweger, and 68 Films Take Over Red Bank This Week

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The Hawthorne Company Quietly Running the Maps at Trade Shows Nationwide

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Atlantic Brain and Spine Brings Pediatric Neurosurgery to Central Jersey for the First Time

The Morristown based neurosurgical practice has recruited a fellowship-trained...

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The Volunteers Who Become a Child’s Only Constant Through Foster Care

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New Jersey Voters Have Spoken Again, and They Still Don’t Want to Pump Their Own Gas

A new statewide poll shows New Jersey's preference for...

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Adam Sandler Is Back in Jersey, and Half of Morris County Has the Set Photos to Prove It

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A Perfect Saturday, a Stormy Sunday, and the Tropical System Worth Watching This Week

New Jersey gets one genuinely comfortable day before humidity,...

The Trucking Company Running New Jersey’s Largest Electric Fleet Is Hosting Its Own Summit

Hermann Services, a nearly century old, family run logistics...

A Ramsey Teen Is Trying to Fix Math Anxiety Before It Ever Starts

Tahir Jamil, a Don Bosco Preparatory High School student...

Reading Scores Dropped on New Jersey’s New Graduation Test. Here’s Why That’s Not the Whole Story.

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Collingswood’s Century-Old Dry Town Status Just Cleared Its Biggest Hurdle Yet

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New Jersey Home Prices Keep Climbing in July, Even as Inventory Finally Starts Loosening Up

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