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The State We're In: Don’t cut funds for saving open space and farmland! (New Jersey Conservation Foundation Column)

Sixty-three acres of Cohanzick Lenape traditional homelands are now in the hands of the Native American Advancement Corporation (NAAC), an organization dedicated to the advancement and development of all North American Natives based in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Tyrese Gould Jacinto, president and CEO of NAAC, and her father, former Chief Mark “Quiet Hawk” Gould, are citizens of the Nanticoke Lenape Nation and have direct ancestral ties to this sacred land. “The acquisition of...

A large group of folks often interrupted Thursday nights 3½-hour scoping hearing at City Hall for a plan by Atlantic Shores to move electricity across the city from a planned offshore wind farm.

The City of Atlantic City will be holding a public meeting about offshore wind's plans to take over a portion of a city park, use several blocks of beach, and a part of Bader Field for the installation of underground utility facilities and associated activities.

The City of Atlantic City will be holding a public meeting about offshore wind's plans to take over a portion of a city park, use several blocks of beach, and a part of Bader Field for the installation of underground utility facilities and associated activities.

Gov. Phil Murphy announced that $99.9 million would go toward parks and playgrounds. How your community might benefit from the funding.

Written comments from the public will be accepted until April 17.

Margot Stern bought the Mercer County property to renovate it into a 27-room boutique hotel. But, she faces vehement opposition.

New Jersey bill A52 allows municipal water systems to use to use lands preserved for recreation and conservation for drinking water wells. Illinois bill HB 2527 extends Municipal Water and Wastewater Funding Study Committee report deadline. Other states introduced PFAS bills.

In late December 1776, George Washington stood on a rocky outcrop high above the Delaware, surveying the land and river below to make sure the boats his men had stashed on an island were hidden from sight. On Christmas night, Washington and his troops manned the boats and crossed the Delaware, then marched south to the Hessian base where they fought and won the Battle of Trenton.