NJ Turnpike

A driver involved in a police chase down the New Jersey Turnpike late Friday had brandished a handgun at another motorist earlier in the day, police said Saturday. The nearly 90-minute effort to stop the driver of a white Chrysler Town and Country started around 4:15 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-287 near Morris Township. New Jersey State Police…

Police in New Jersey are releasing details of an unusual chase down the state turnpike Friday evening

A driver is in custody following a pursuit down the New Jersey Turnpike Friday evening. State troopers started their chase of the vehicle near East Brunswick around 5:30 p.m. and brought the driver to a stop by 6 p.m. It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the pursuit. The evading driver appeared to stay at legal speeds, but failed to...

The car eventually came to a stop on the highway in Middlesex County, and police brought him in to custody after forcible removing him from the vehicle. It was not immediately clear why officers were chasing the driver.

Floodwater turned the streets of North Plainsfield, New Jersey, into what looked like rapids Wednesday night. Meanwhile, drivers were stranded on the New Jersey Turnpike through Thursday morning. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A passenger inside a disabled car on the New Jersey Turnpike was killed early Monday when it was rear-ended by a pickup truck, state police said. The car became disabled in the right lane on the highway’s southbound side near milepost 105.7 in Newark, but it wasn’t immediately clear why that happened or how long the car was there...

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.

A fuel tanker fire on the Western Spur of the NJ Turnpike Monday morning created such intense, thick black smoke that it blew across the Hudson River and over western Manhattan. Chopper 4 was over the scene at the northbound off-ramp to Route 3 just before 6:45 a.m. Smoke from the burning, overturned tanker rose to at least 1,600 feet,…

Smoke from the fire on the Western Spur could be seen miles away.

Smoke from the fire on the Western Spur could be seen miles away.

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

A truck was ablaze on the New Jersey Turnpike on Sunday evening, sending black smoke across the sky.

A coach bus carrying dozens of passengers from Washington D.C. to New Jersey crashed into an overpass at Newark Penn Station, sending dozens of riders to the hospital, officials say.

A school bus with approximately 42 children and adults onboard flipped onto its side on the NJ Turnpike in East Brunswick, but there were no fatalities or serious injuries, police said.

“Structurally deficient and functionally obsolete” — never words you want to hear about a bridge that carries more than 150,000 cars a day on an artery crucial to transit in and out of America’s biggest city.

A school bus with dozens of children on board overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike near the Goethals Bridge.

Part of the Newark Bay Extension Bridge of the New Jersey Turnpike that was closed for emergency construction after a section of the deck dropped “several inches” has reopened, authorities say.

An overturned tractor-trailer truck is blocking five lanes of traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, officials say.

A tanker truck carrying liquid asphalt overturned and caught fire in the northbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike in Burlington County Sunday afternoon causing a traffic nightmare.

Rough commutes will turn into major headaches in a few weeks as urgent repairs begin at New York Penn Station, a two-month overhaul that officials have dubbed a “summer of hell.” Some New Jersey towns are already lining up plans to help NJ Transit riders, but one commuter isn’t waiting to find an alternative.