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New Jersey has no statewide trick-or-treating start time or curfew, so when Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, it's left up to individual towns to decide when the candy run begins and ends. Some South Jersey communities are starting in broad daylight, while others are shifting the whole event to Friday night to dodge a scheduling conflict. The result is a patchwork of trick-or-treating hours that families are being urged to check before they head out the door.

One lucky Jersey Cash 5 ticket turns a Gloucester County Walmart into a million-dollar hotspot....

A sprawling, long-vacant Sony plant in Pitman, New Jersey could soon give way to a $450 million film, television and recording studio district, under a proposal unveiled this week that developers say would also bring housing, a hotel and hundreds of jobs to the Gloucester County borough. The 76-acre site at 400 N. Woodbury-Glassboro Road has sat largely unused since it was sold in May 2013, and borough officials say the plan represents the most serious effort yet to put it back to work.

Toms River Mayor Daniel Rodrick filed a lawsuit Friday, October 30, 2026, against the township's own Municipal Utilities Authority, seeking to end what he calls patronage health benefits worth roughly $227,250 a year for seven politically appointed commissioners. The suit, filed in Ocean County Superior Court at 4:35 p.m., names both the MUA and all seven commissioners as defendants and argues their compensation packages blow past a local cap of $2,000 per year for authority board members.

New Jersey mails Senior Freeze checks Nov. 2 to homeowners who filed June 2 to Sept. 1, with a Dec. 1 batch next. Nov. 2 is also the PAS-1 filing deadline.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Environmental Police are warning outdoor recreators to follow safety protocols when using tree stands after responding to three separate accidents across the state recently. Crews responded to tree stand incidents in East Brookfield, Whately, and Sheffield last weekend. Tree stands are popular elevated...

Marblehead architect Tom Saltsman’s annual Halloween art installation is complete and drawing big crowds this Halloween. This year’s opus, titled “Memory Lane,” represents the houses Saltsman and his family have lived in over the years, using single point perspective techniques to draw the eye to a Pepper’s ghost projection nearly 45 feet from the street.

An owl struck by a car on a Massachusetts highway is alive and recovering, thanks to a state trooper who stopped for her in the road, a Wilmington animal control officer who drove her to help at 11 PM, and the rehabilitators at Newhouse Wildlife Rescue who were ready when they arrived.

Amazon has withdrawn its controversial bid to introduce a drone delivery program in Westborough, according to local lawmakers.

DNA provided by Gala’s nieces and nephews helped identify his remains on September 10, 2025, WCVB reported. Gala, a Lynn native, was 21 when he was killed in Burma on July 14, 1944, while serving with Merrill’s Marauders. His family received his casket at Logan Airport, and a police escort brought it to Solimine Funeral Home in Lynn, according to WCVB.