Garden State Parkway

An off-duty New Jersey police officer has been charged with vehicular homicide in a crash on the Garden State Parkway last fall that killed a Maryland couple. John McClave III, 34, of Toms River, is charged with two counts of second-degree vehicular homicide, the Monmouth County prosecutor’s office said Friday. He is a member of the Hillside police department but…

Police have arrested and charged two juveniles for allegedly starting the brush fire that shut down a section of the Garden State Parkway for about 10 hours last week evening, State Police said Wednesday.

Police said that brush fires that shut down part of the Garden State Parkway on Wednesday were a result of arson, with investigators looking for a group of teenagers who ran into a nearby apartment complex.

The preliminary investigation found that several individuals, possibly kids, started the fire in a draining culvert that runs underneath the highway.

The highway was was closed in brick between exits 91 and 98 in he evening, and remained closed for hours.

A section of the Garden State Parkway closed Wednesday evening after brush fires broke out in the woods nearby — and was still closed well into the night.

An unidentified driver died early Saturday morning after crashing into a toll booth on the Garden State Parkway. State police say a man was killed around 3:30 a.m. after his car slammed into the Bergen Toll Plaza and burst into flames. Several lanes on the Garden State Parkway in Saddle Brook were closed for hours as investigators assessed the scene….

A man is dead after his car burst into flames at a toll booth in New Jersey.

In a measure to showcase the talent of New Jerseyans and their contributions on an international scale, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday that nine service areas along the Garden State Parkway will be renamed after local icons inducted into the state’s Hall of Fame. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to rename the nine...

A motorcyclist suddenly got off his sports bike on the Garden State Parkway during Thursday’s morning rush, whirled around and blasted the hood and windshield of another vehicle with his fists, causing significant damage in what appears to be a case of road rage, police in New Jersey said Friday. According to Manchester cops, who say they are assisting...

New Jersey was ranked as the best state to live in, according to a new WalletHub Survey. Education, quality of life and health helped push the Garden State to the top.

Two people died and four others were hurt, one of them seriously, in a five-vehicle accident on the Garden State Parkway Wednesday, officials say. According to the preliminary investigation, the driver of a GMC Suburban lost control of the vehicle in the southbound lanes in Clifton, ran off the left side of the road, struck a concrete barrier and flipped…

NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Vehicles draped with banners supporting President Donald Trump snarled traffic around the New York metropolitan area two days before Election day and anti-Trump protesters clashed with police in Manhattan, leading to 11 arrests. The first tri-state caravan was spotted in New Jersey around noon when vehicles were seen stopped on the Garden State Parkway near Lakewood. The number of cars…

Now that the summer season has come to an end, it’s going to cost you more to go to the Jersey Shore and other spots using New Jersey’s major toll roads. Starting Sunday, tolls are going up on the Atlantic City Expressway, Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike.

The mother of a New York man who was fatally shot by a New Jersey state trooper last month during a traffic stop says her son was treated worse than a dog, and the officer should should be charged

A New York man fatally shot by a New Jersey state trooper last month during a traffic stop was treated worse than a dog, and the officer should be charged with murder, the man’s mother said in an interview

Tolls will go up on New Jersey’s three major toll roads in September

Video released by the New Jersey attorney general shows a state trooper fired his handgun six times, killing a New York man after a struggle erupted during a traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway last month.

New Jersey’s attorney general released police audio and video recordings Monday that captured the events leading up to the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Maurice Gordon. The 12 files provided by Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s office and accompanying descriptions provide Gordon’s family with critical details of the night he died. At approximately 6:26 a.m. on May 23, Gordon was stopped...