Light rail train, SUV collide in Belleville

An NJ Transit Light Rail train collided with an SUV in Belleville this morning, causing one…

The night the world exploded

JERSEY CITY — In Liberty State Park, with its views across New York Harbor to where the…

Final chapter of KHS renovations?

  KEARNY – It’s all systems go for what the Kearny Board of Education hopes will…

Town scores Red Bull revenues

HARRISON — Municipal officials in Harrison will never know which way the state’s highest court was…

When the web walls came tumbling down

HARRISON – Behind the digital walls, the keepers put up the good fight. But the relentless…

Accused bike thief ‘smoked’ out: HPD

HARRISON — A weary traveler is getting an ill-deserved rest now … with some assistance from…

Distracted driver in hit-run: HPD

HARRISON – A man reportedly involved in a hit-and-run on July 15 was subsequently arrested on…

Tried to make clean getaway: police

HARRISON — He had an appetite for starch — for both his stomach and for his…

KPD: She was bellicose & belligerent

A ShopRite “shopper” who tried to avoid check-out checked into the Hudson County Jail on $50,000 bail…

Official OK granted to keep QPHS open

Queen of Peace High School, which had been slated to close at the end of June…

Spend a ‘Night Out’ with neighbors

KEARNY-HARRISON — Mark your calendar! Next Tuesday, Aug. 2, more than 16,000 communities across the United States…

Child hurt in hit-run; driver charged

KEARNY — A 4-year-old boy was injured last Wednesday when he was struck by a hit-run driver…

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Check the facts before drawing conclusions’

This letter is written in response to an article that appeared in The Observer on July…

Obituaries for July 27, 2016

Robert St. John Robert (Bobby) St. John, of Orlando, Fla., formerly of East Newark, died July…

Kids enjoy week of baseball fundamentals at Kearny Kards Kamp

Michael Bosveld is only a seven-year-old second grader at Kearny’s Roosevelt School, but he was able…