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Can offshore wind turbines and whales coexist? Scientists weigh in.

Maya Lin is taking on one of the N.J.'s most visible sea level rise impacts

I-295 project was 4 years behind schedule before retaining wall collapsed, DOT says Updated Apr 01, 2021; The $900 million Direct Connection project on I-295 was four years off from its projected 2024 completion date before a retaining wall partially collapsed last week, a state DOT spokesman confirmed. NJ DOT spokesman Steve Schapiro confirmed that the project was no longer expected to be completed by 2024, as DOT officials originally said in 2019. Before the wall collapse, the project’s ne...

Star-Ledger wins general excellence award, numerous other top honors from state press association Updated Feb 21, 2021; It was the eighth time in the past 11 years The Star-Ledger won the award. Journalists at NJ Advance Media provide the majority of the locally produced content for The Star-Ledger, NJ.com and other affiliated papers. In addition to the general excellence award, The Star-Ledger also took home top honors in various editorial, advertising and photography awards with much of the ...

The Holocaust could not kill this N.J. man. He won’t let COVID take him either. Updated Jan 22, 2021; Posted Jan 22, 2021 93-year-old Irving Levine receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. Levine is a Holocaust survivor. Photo by Andre Malok | NJ Advanc Facebook Share Irving Levine watched his father take his final breath, then lay beside the corpse for hours on a freezing winter night in 1943. He couldn’t cry. He couldn’t speak. ...

Trump was great at making deals. But as president, he missed all that stuff about delegating authority and hiring good advisers.

Donald Trump's claim to fame was his supposed skill in picking subordinates. But he had no such skill.. Instead of hiring good advisers, he took only his own advice.

Doggie daycare in N.J. making sure your adopted ‘pandemic puppies’ are learning new tricks Updated Jan 11, 2021; Stuck at home and in desperate need of companionship, scores of New Jerseyans have turned to a tail-wagging alternative: if you can’t see your friends, adopt a new one instead. Throughout the pandemic, shelters, rescues and pet stores have reported a surge of dog adoptions in New Jersey and across the country. At the same time, businesses that board animals while their owners ...

Our favorite op-eds from readers in 2020 | Opinion Updated Jan 04, 2021; There were plenty of opinions in 2020. Should the president be impeached? Should we shut down the economy? How do we make Black lives matter? Should we replace a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the twilight of a president’s term? And we published hundreds of views on those issues and others. We’ve picked some of our favorites from a very tumultuous year. Just click the headline to read the entire piece. “Don’t be af...

I’m not the same person I was a year ago and neither are you. How we survived the most unusual year of our lives. Updated Mar 19, 2021; Click the play button, below, to listen to the audiobook version of this story. The last time I was in a crowd of people — a real crowd, not the checkout at Home Depot — was Jan. 28. I got up at 5 a.m. to join the Trump line, that is the thousands who had converged, some of them days in advance, outside the Wildwood Convention Center in the hopes of sha...