New Jersey (March 14, 2025) – Friday, Mayor Ras J. Baraka issued the following statement urging Senate Minority Leader Chuck ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka called on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to ‘step aside’ after the New Yorker announced ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is making a bid to stake out the progressive lane in the six-person race for the Democratic ...

The 11 a.m. candidate forum joins a 9 a.m. -12 noon meeting hosted by John Harmon, founder, president and CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, the Mercer County Black ...

Earlier this year, city officials announced that Newark was launching a search for a new poet laureate. The position is ...

From reducing crime and gang violence and resolving a lead-pipe/clean water crisis, to leveraging public/private partnerships and campaigning for the creation of model neighborhoods, Newark Mayor Ras ...

A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a ...

Five teenagers have been arrested after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed at what police believe was a flat party. Two other people, a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were also injured in the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The showdown over congestion pricing is back in court, with half a dozen lawsuits pending in New York and New Jersey. The main event is the Trump administration’s decision ...

What came first: America's obsession with Halloween or Party City? Steve Mandell launched Party City in 1986 as a single store in New Jersey. He sold cups, napkins and other supplies for birthday ...

NMOA, LMXD and MCI Collective broke ground last week for construction of Museum Parc with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka ... it elevates our downtown lifestyle to an art form, and inspires us to embrace ...

The storied theater, long a haven for downtown creatives to gather ... As attendees hopped into Ubers to the after party, the night took on a life of its own, morphing into something between a ...