Gov. Phil Murphy backs Assemblyman Raj Mukherji for new LD-32 state senate seat

The Hoboken City Council could vote on a long-awaited Western Edge settlement that includes a “30-year financial agreement” at Wednesday’s meeting. In October 2021, Pegasus Partners, the developers of the Western Edge project, filed a lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court alleging that Hoboken allowed Union City to interfere with the height and scope of the project at 1200-1330 Madison St.

Jersey City Ward E Councilman James Solomon is calling for an audit of five local government entities to identify illegal payouts: the city, their municipal utilities authority, their board of education, Hudson County, and the county schools of technology. The downtown council representative said early this year that he would...

Sires Team for West New York saw over 600 attendees, including a significant number of Hudson County Democratic Organization mainstays, at their first fundraiser at The Graycliff in Moonachie last night. U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said that Sires, a colleague in Washington D.C. for 16 years, is “indispensable” for...

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department are investigating a fatal shooting in the Heights from last night. “The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in the area of Summit Avenue and Poplar Street. More to follow,” the HCPO tweeted early this morning.

A 59-year-old Edison man has been charged in a Secaucus hit-and-run that badly injured a pedestrian on Thursday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced. Som Abrol, 59, of Edison, has been charged with knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in serious bodily injury and endangering an injured victim, Suarez said in a statement.

Three Secaucus Police Officers acted quickly last week to resuscitate a 76-year-old man who was found unresponsive and not breathing, Police Chief Dennis Miller said. On Tuesday, January 24th at approximately 4:45 p.m., the Secaucus Police Department responded to the area of Seaview Drive and New County Road on a report of an unresponsive male who was not breathing.

A Flanders man is facing charges including driving while intoxicated and assault by auto for a Hoboken hit-and-run on Saturday evening, police said. Paul Holt, 26, of Flanders, was charged with assault by auto, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, having an open container of alcohol, leaving the scene of accident, and failure to provide insurance, according to Police Det. Lt. Jonathan Mecka.