Limited prospects for landfill use

KEARNY — If and when Kearny convinces the N.J. Sports & Exposition Authority to vacate the Keegan…

Kearny named school ‘District of Distinction’

KEARNY — The Kearny Board of Education has been named a “District of Distinction” by District…

KPD:  Dial ‘R’ for robbery

  A Kearny man who was transporting a batch of Apple iPhones in his car was the…

Intense radio transmissions from KFD @ Washington Ave. fire

Click to listen to excerpts of radio transmissions from the Kearny FD working the fire at…

DEVELOPING: Fire tears through home at 150 Washington Ave., Kearny

A fire tore through a home this afternoon at 150 Washington Ave., Kearny. We're told no…

Irish eyes were smiling

Sights from the 2016 West Hudson St. Patrick’s Day Parade.  

Car wash faces civil rights suit

KEARNY — A Kearny carwash could be in hot water after the state filed a civil-rights…

Ribbon cut for upgraded Vets Field

KEARNY – Last Tuesday, Mayor Alberto Santos and the Town Council held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for…

‘Hairspray’ shaping up nicely at KHS

KEARNY – Make way for “Hairspray,” the upcoming spring musical at Kearny High School, opening on…

Arrest ‘record’ for two suspects?

KEARNY — A man and a woman, arrested here last week on marijuana-possession charges, may have…

KPD:  N.Y.C. cabby assaulted, robbed

Shortly after midnight last Thursday, March 10, Kearny police were alerted to a “commotion” at Passaic and…

Arbitrators: BOE must pay $2.9 million

KEARNY — The Kearny Board of Education has lost – bigtime – the first of two important…

KPD: You’ve won a trip to Florida!

It started with a shoplifting-turned-robbery, morphed into a foot chase in the brush and with an assault…

Three chosen to lead West Hudson St. Patrick’s Day Parade

When the 43rd annual West Hudson St. Patrick’s Day Parade steps off Sunday at 2 p.m.…

Are more parking controls coming to Kearny?

KEARNY — Kearny has moved to tighten regulations governing the allocation and use of designated curbside…

Town to NJSEA: ‘Get off our land’

KEARNY — Come June 30, there’ll be a showdown at the Keegan landfill, pardners, so don’t…

Another Bulger moves up the ladder

KEARNY – A veteran member of the Kearny Fire Department moved up in the ranks last…

Purloined pooch found as investigation continues

KEARNY — The talk of this town last week was the 12-week-old puppy reported stolen from a local…

KPD: From ABC to CDS at local pub 

On Feb. 8, KPD detectives from the Vice/Alcoholic Beverage Control unit paid a visit to the…

Leadbeater sentencing postponed … for the 4th time

NEWARK – For the fourth time in the last eight months, the sentencing of a former…

Purloined pooch found

The puppy stolen this week from a Kearny pet store has been recovered by the Kearny…

Meet & greet inner-city pups this Saturday and perhaps walk away with a new pet

KEARNY – This Saturday, Feb. 27, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., there will be a very…

New charter school will have 30 teachers

KEARNY — Hudson Arts & Science Charter School, slated to open this September at the site of…

KPD: Juvenile behavior

Shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb 12, Officers Michael Santucci and Esteban Gonzalez were dispatched to…

GATE program opened at Midland Ave. BOE location

Kim Kayak’s fourth-graders were engaged in a creative problem solving lesson: figuring out how to “write”…

Kearny officials mull changes to handicapped parking permit procedures

KEARNY – The Town of Kearny is re-thinking its approach to the way it allocates spaces…

KPD: You snooze, you lose

Recently, we have written of various motorists found sleeping at the wheel of their cars. Last…

Civilians in control

KEARNY – It took a while to achieve but now that the civilian dispatching system for the Kearny Fire…

KPD: One driver was alert, one wasn’t

A concerned motorist and a drug expert from Bergen County figured in the arrest last week of man thought to…

W.H.A.T. holding auditions for ‘Schoolhouse Rock Live!’

West Hudson Arts & Theater Co. is holding auditions for "Schoolhouse Rock Live!" on Monday, Feb.…