New Jersey

With the Transportation Security Administration’s deadline for full REAL ID enforcement less than two weeks away, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission is offering limited, emergency appointments for residents with specific needs to travel. The emergency appointments are for residents who have plans to travel on a domestic flight within two weeks for “life-or-death reasons” or for “urgent travel...

People may have noted the absence of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy during the response to the massive Ocean County wildfire this week. He is out of the country for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Joseph Kling, 19, of Ocean Township, New Jersey, is charged with aggravated arson and arson in connection to the massive Jones Road wildfire.

A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens was expected to grow Thursday, with smoke affecting the air quality in the New York City area before rain arrives this week, authorities said. Higher-than-normal pollution levels were expected Thursday in New York City, Rockland and Westchester counties, and in Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk counties, the New York State Department...

The Ocean County, New Jersey, Jones Road Wildfire has burned thousands of acres, at one point forced thousands of evacuations, destroyed a business and closed some roads. A man faces arson charges.

The wildfire burning in Lacey and Ocean townships could end up being the largest in the state in the past 20 years. As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 12,000 acres had burned, and the flames were only 40% contained. NBC New York’s Charles Watson reports.

A fast-moving wildfire continues burning in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens as of Wednesday afternoon — already consuming 12,000 acres and only being 35% contained, according to officials. For Wednesday, an Air Quality Alert is in effect for Ocean County, near the site of the fire, where air quality could become unhealthy for sensitive groups. At this time we don’t see…

As the Jones Road wildfire continues to burn down in Ocean County, smoke from the fire continues to spread in the atmosphere, impacting air quality for areas downwind of the fire. And as the wind direction shifts, smoke could eventually spread over the city and through the Hudson Valley The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued an Air Quality…

A fast-moving wildfire was burning in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, but officials on Wednesday lifted earlier evacuation orders and reopened a stretch of a major highway that had been closed due to the blaze. More than 1,300 structures were threatened and about 3,000 residents had been told to leave their homes, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said. Officials said Wednesday...

Tracie Strahan reports on the huge wildfire that caused major evacuations.

A massive wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, has burned thousands of acres, forced thousands of evacuations and closed several roads. 

A massive wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, forced evacuations and shut down roads officials said.

Police are searching for a Pennsylvania man accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl in New Jersey. Shane Hennesy, 22, of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, was charged back on Feb. 20, 2025, with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Police said Hennesy sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in Pine Hill, New Jersey, between December 2024...

Officials are searching for a Princeton University student who went missing in Princeton, New Jersey, over the weekend. Lauren Blackburn, 23, was last seen around 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, 2025, in the area of the Firestone Library on Princeton’s campus. He was wearing blue jeans that were torn at the knees, a yellow t-shirt, a black, zippered hooded...

Hundreds of people packed into a Barcelona church on Tuesday to mourn a Spanish family of five who died earlier this month in a sightseeing helicopter crash in New York City and whose bodies were laid to rest in Spain. As church bells tolled against a brilliant blue sky, mourners gathered and wept quietly as they paid respects to Agustín Escobar,...

Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, has been found guilty on all counts in her federal bribery trial. She was found guilty of bribery, obstruction of justice and helping her husband sell his office to work as a foreign agent for Egypt, all in exchange for taking hundreds of thousands in cash, gold bars and a new...

Nadine Menendez, wearing a pink facemask, stood beside her defense attorney as the verdict was read. Sentencing was scheduled for June 12. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

A jury found Nadine Menendez guilty on all counts in a bribery case in which prosecutors said she was a “critical participant” in the five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, as they accepted cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with business dealings or legal woes. The jury...

A jury is resuming deliberations Monday in the bribery case brought against Nadine Menendez after a prosecutor told a jury that she was a “critical participant” in a five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. The jury began considering the charges against the 58-year-old Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, resident in mid-afternoon on Friday in Manhattan federal court. Jurors went...

Some New Jersey families are desperately fighting to save their business and their homes, as all could become victims of eminent domain. So why does the city want their properties? NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.