Bergen County, NJ

Winner! A Jersey Cash 5 ticket worth more than $576,000 was sold in Bergen County.A ticket matching all five numbers for the Thursday, May 19 drawing was sold at Northvale Gas at 264 Livingston St. in Northvale, lottery officials said.The winning numbers were: 01, 05, 06, 10 and 22. The XTRA number…

FLEMINGTON BOROUGH, NJ (Hunterdon County) – A Bergen County man is facing charges including driving under the influence after an investigation into a suspicious vehicle in Flemington Borough. On Saturday, April 23, police responded to the area of Main Street near the post office for a report of a...

TRENTON, NJ  – One lucky Bergen County Cash 5 ticket matched all five numbers drawn...

A Teaneck police sergeant confronted by a disturbed man on a Bergenfield street was surprised when the stranger pulled out a large knife."Kill me! Shoot!" the Portuguese native shouted in broken English to Sgt. Ronald Boswell and backup officers from both towns who rushed to the scene, Teaneck Poli…

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Caps were tossed. Graduates walked across the stage. Surprise scholarships were awarded. After two years confined to a digital screen, Bergen Community College commencement came back, live and in-person. Valedictorian Katie Conte, of Ringwood, addressed her peers as the top student in the class of 2022.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) raised roughly $50,000 toward a fundraiser last night in Bergen County to boost the coffers of Robert J. Menendez, a Democrat running in the nearby 8th district. That brings the total dollars raised or contributed by Gottheimer, the Human Fundraising Machine, to Democratic congressional candidates nationally...

HACKENSACK, NJ – Last Friday, the County of Bergen paid tribute to local military service members in a ceremony at One Bergen County Plaza in recognition of Military Appreciation Month. Declared by Congress in 1999, May was selected National Military Appreciation Month as a month-long observance honoring the scarifies...

A young child was airlifted to Hackensack University Medical Center after nearly drowning in a backyard pool in Mahwah late Wednesday afternoon. The boy, 3, was breathing on his own but unconscious when first responders arrived at the Wyckoff Avenue home near the Ramsey border. He regained consciousness, however, and...

The Englewood-based Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) and Bergen County Executive James Tedesco announced the closure of a $5.6 million sale of revenue bonds, a significant funding source for bergenPAC’s $15 million Invest in the Arts Capital Campaign. The bonds, issued by the Bergen County Improvement Authority (BCIA) to...

(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- The Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) and Bergen County Executive James Tedesco have announced the closure of a $5.6 million sale of revenue bonds, a significant funding source for bergenPAC’s $15 million Invest in the Arts Capital Campaign. The bonds, issued by the Bergen County Improvement...

Reality star Christine Quinn of the hit series Selling Sunset didn't get the warm welcome she was hoping for in New Jersey when protestors invaded her book signing event. Quinn, whose socials are full of photos of her wearing fur, found herself in the crosshairs of anti-fur protestors in Ridgewood, Bergen County over the weekend.

Two 22-year-old Bronx men were arrested on Wednesday for multiple New Jersey carjackings, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday.

A Brazilian steakhouse has opened in Bergen County.Leblon Steak is located on Kinderkamack Road in Hillsdale, formerly occupied by Golden Dynasty. The Chinese restaurant closed after 30 years in 2020. Leblon was co-founded by Vartek Rybka and Wellington Brito. Brito owns Flames Brazilian Steakhouse…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health announced the recent appointment of Dr. Ira Braunschweig as chief, Section of Transplant and Cell Therapy, at Rutgers Cancer Institute, chief of the Transplant and Cell Therapy Service of the RWJBarnabas Health Oncology Service Line and director for cell therapy and bone marrow transplantation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas facility. Braunschweig will also serve as professor of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He will be joining Rutgers on June 1.

Only 150 tickets were made available for Tuesday morning’s bottle-signing event with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in Glen Rock. But that didn’t stop hundreds of people from lining up anyway, forming a snaking line through the Bergen County Bottle King parking lot, in hopes of meeting the “Breaking Bad” stars.

Thirty-six years is long time. It is especially long to be a tenant of a residential real estate firm. Alfred Sanzari Enterprises on Tuesday said it re-signed a 2,837-square-foot office lease with First Bergen Title Agency at Court Plaza North in Hackensack. First Bergen has been a tenant at Court Plaza since 1986.

Newly released data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention shows that drug overdoses and deaths rose again last year. While this fact is appalling and tragic, it’s no surprise to New Jersey hospitals such as Bergen New Bridge Medical Center that are increasingly called on to treat substance use disorder. Bergen...

The driver of an SUV who was killed last week in a head-on wreck with a box truck in Sussex County has been identified as a Bergen County woman who most recently lived in Florida. Janet Esser, 58, was driving south on County Road 565 in Wantage Township about 6:30...