NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, ...

Mayor Ras Baraka spent International Women's Day engaging with women across Newark, just hours after a devastating shooting ...

New polling from Fairleigh Dickinson University gave us some early insight on who voters are looking into in the race for New Jersey governor. Democratic voters weighed in on ...

The VITA program provides free in-person tax assistance to community members making $80,000 or less in taxable income ...

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka and platinium hip hop impressario Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis were in the studio together once again on Tuesday, three decades after Baraka provided a spoken-word ...

Two more gubernatorial candidates will seek public matching dollars after reporting they have raised and spent enough money to qualify, their campaigns told the New Jersey Monitor. The campaigns ...

Newark is New Jersey’s largest city with about 74,000 children under 18, according to last year’s Kids Count data. In 2024, Mayor Ras Baraka enforced the city’s summer youth curfew as a ...

For the Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, eliminating these conditions that cause homelessness is a top priority of his 3-year plan, “The path home.” It was introduced in December 2022, with the ...

At Black History Month event, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka underlines key perspective Members of the Legislative Black Caucus, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, other officials and business professionals were ...