Road crews are expected to shift traffic patterns on roads at the entrance to Long Beach Island this week as state transportation officials anticipate final paving of the Causeway project to begin. It ...

Operating and caring for a historic lighthouse might seem a tall order, but it’s been Diane Rapp’s life work. She was 15 years old when she got her summer job working at Barnegat Lighthouse State Park ...

The Stafford Branch of the Ocean County Library, located at 129 North Main St. (Route 9), will permanently close on Friday, May 1, as preparations continue for the opening of the new Stafford branch ...

And while this is traditionally a busy time of year as locals and second homeowners bring their yards back to life for summer while businesses prepare for the tourism season, this year there is more ...

Before running out to center field for the top of the seventh inning on April 15, Emily Zellman tapped her cellphone. A moment later, Hillsong Rhythm’s “Goodbye Yesterday” began playing through the ...

Coastal advocates say the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is steering offshore policy back into dangerous waters as it pushes for ocean-floor critical minerals, risking the same ...

On Friday, April 17, Harvey Cedars Mayor John M. Imperiale and Police Chief Robert Burnaford met in Toms River with the Ocean County Engineering Department and Commissioners Frank Sadeghi and Sam ...

Brennan Fuels will re-subdivide its gas station at Central Avenue and 18th Street into two single-family unit lots. The application was approved by the Barnegat Light Planning Board on April 15. The ...

Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven has a rather large complex. There’s the theater itself, of course. Then there are the cast house; the Show Place Ice Cream Parlour building, which also includes ...

After being closed since early February, the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven recently reopened. On Feb. 9, the museum experienced the rupture of a sprinkler pipe, causing substantial damage ...

CRITICAL WILDLIFE HABITAT: At the end of each March, staff from the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge erect seasonal closure signs at the refuge entrance on Long Beach Island’s south end. The ...

State Sen. Carmen Amato Jr. and Assemblymen Brian Rumpf and Gregory Myhre of the 9th Legislative District recently reintroduced legislation that would strengthen penalties under state law for identity ...