Suspended cop tied to shoplifting?

BELLEVILLE – A veteran Belleville cop is under suspension pending completion of an investigation by an…

KHS hosts cyber safety talks for adults, kids

KEARNY – Worried that your child is being bullied by his/her peers on the internet? Are…

KPD: Shoplifting? Oh boy

At 11:30 p.m.,  Oct. 30, Sgt. Jack Corbett and Officers Jason Rodrigues and Michael Gontarczuk responded to…

Sights from the Kearny Halloween Parade and PAWrade

A lifetime of library service

BELLEVILLE – She started as a maternity leave replacement in 1989 and spent the past 17…

Firehouse fix-up still on hold

KEARNY – Five months ago, after learning that the building was structurally compromised, the Kearny Fire…

Shaming owners into restoring residences

  KEARNY – The house once under construction at 36 Oakwood Ave., between Belgrove Drive and…

KPD: Whisky, you’re the devil

A man with an apparent fetish for Hennessy whisky was arrested last week on suspicion of being…

Presidential race rocks the vote

  KEARNY – Worried that you- haven’t yet received your sample ballot for the Nov. 8…

13 displaced by Johnston Ave. fire

KEARNY – A fire in a three-family home at 90 Johnston Ave. last week was declared under…

Belleville’s hidden history

BELLEVILLE – If you were in the vicinity of the historic Belleville Dutch Reformed Church at Main…

Labor peace achieved with Harrison firefighters

HARRISON – Members of the Harrison Fire Department have averted both a Newark takeover and a…

Raptors at risk from methane flame

LYNDHURST – In recent years, the Hackensack Meadowlands has drawn both humans curious about nature and…

Monumental undertaking for Explorers

HARRISON – For those Harrison eighth-graders who had never before set foot in the nation’s capital,…

KPD: The right to bare legs?

At 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 14, Officer Michael Alvarez was on patrol at Kearny Ave. and Rose…

Fashion & art & Goodwill

HARRISON — Well, they did it again. “They” being Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern…

They give their all for you …

LYNDHURST – The Township of Lyndhurst is painting part of the community red and blue in…

Utility planning upgrades in area

KEARNY – New Jersey’s biggest utility wants to run an underwater power line from Newark to…

‘Security’ man robs local bank: HPD

HARRISON – The Harrison Police Department is seeking a man who robbed a local Kearny Bank…

ALERT: Trucktoberfest canceled Saturday, Oct. 22

The Kearny PBA Local 21’s Trucktoberfest, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 22, has been canceled because of…

Lucky 13 join Kearny’s bravest

KEARNY – Now there will be three. If she makes it through training, Haley Girdwood will…

New effort to redevelop Porete Ave.

  NORTH ARLINGTON – More than a decade after several south Bergen communities were battered by…

KPD: It wasn’t just a bad dream

Shortly before 5 a.m. on Oct. 7, a resident of the 400 block of Elm St.…

HPD: Gas station robbed again

HARRISON – A local service station targeted by robbers earlier this year has been hit once…

Looking to buy … but no sale yet

EAST NEWARK – It appears that the Borough of East Newark is taking steps to acquire…

Driver saved from burning auto

KEARNY —   A motorist caught in a burning car beneath a tractor trailer on the Belleville…

Bravest try to save animals, too

KEARNY – This story does not have a happy ending. Animal-lovers may want to skip it…

Vikings enjoying second life in Bergen tourney

  The North Arlington High School boys’ soccer team has survived a season thus far that…

ABOARD THE MARY DAY – A reporter’s travel to Maine

By Ron Leir ABOARD THE MARY DAY – You needn’t call me Ishmael but I admit…

Ladders & engines & red, white & blue

Sights from the Kearny Fire Department’s Open House from Saturday, Oct. 8. All images by Karen…