A New Jersey fire chief says two firefighters were killed and five others injured battling a blaze inside a docked cargo ship carrying more than a thousand vehicles.

Residents of largely minority areas in New Jersey are fighting three proposed gas-fired power plants as they wait for the state’s environmental law _ signed with great fanfare nearly three years ago _ to take full effect.

Authorities have apprehended the suspect charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding two Newark police officers.

An ambitious program to replace thousands of residential lead water lines in New Jersey's largest city is about to be completed years ahead of schedule.

With the surprise twin hiring of two of the country’s most prominent writers on race, Howard University in Washington, D.

“You can’t cut El Paso without cutting Juarez, and you can’t cut Juarez without cutting El Paso.”In other developments Tuesday, Illinois Gov. Also, the University Medical Center of El Paso erected heated isolation tents to treat coronavirus patients. El Paso County recorded about 1,400 new cases Tuesday, just short of the previous day's record of 1,443. Other Mexican border cities have complained about people entering from U.S. cities that are suffering from virus outbreaks. Dr. Hector Ocaranza, the city and county health authority in El Paso, said the heavily Latino city's family-based culture has been a contributing factor in the spread.