Power was restored hours before the ceremony, around 3 p.m. local time, as music began blasting again from beachfront ...

Helicopters are essential for firefighting. They can drop 1,000 gallons of water at once — some much more. That’s far more ...

The wildfire, which was determined to be the second largest in New Jersey in the past 20 years, consumed more than 15,000 ...

The sparing of local residents and homes in this fire was no happy accident. Land use in this area of the state has long been guided by the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. That plan, created ...

As the Jones Road wildfire raged through the heart of the Pine Barrens on April 22, a Waretown man found himself trapped in ...

The 13-year-old is accused by the school district of damaging the laptop as part of the “Chromebook Challenge,” a TikTok trend in which students intentionally jam lead or metal objects into the ...

SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. - New York Army National Guard helicopter crews partnered May 8 with state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers ...

The New Jersey man charged with sparking a wildfire that ravaged parts of the Pine Barrens in Ocean County ... after the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower reported a large column of smoke in the area ...

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A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second-largest fire in nearly two decades. Prosecutors said Friday that ...