Ricardo Kaulessar

The Jersey City Board of Education voted 6-2 at a special meeting on July 16 to extend the contract of Schools Superintendent Norma Fernandez.

During the Revolutionary War, Black women in New Jersey also took part by working as cooks, nurses, and workers.

Punjab Meet House is the new eatery at 25 Christopher Columbus Drive, opened on July 3 by veteran restaurateur and Jersey City resident Jimmy Rizvi.

The lawsuit names Jersey City Board of Education, Jersey City School District, the NJ State Board of Education, PS 38, and other unidentified entities.

The lawsuit, filed in Hudson County Superior Court, says the former student was sexually assaulted when he was in the fourth grade in 1999.

A 40-year-old Jersey City man was charged with murder after the death of his older sister in April.

A Hoboken resident is suing several Jersey City police officers and the city over lingering injuries stemming from an encounter with police at a mall in 2023.

New Jersey was known as the “slave state of the North." More than half of New Jerseyeans, however, are unaware that slavery occurred in their home state.

The Five Corners Branch of the Jersey City Free Public Library closed July 23 due to failures in its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system.

New businesses opening in Jersey City are a cafe offering dishes of the Latin diaspora and the first New Jersey location for a canine daycare chain.