Michael Matera News Today

Norwich ― A scaled-down state plan to build four roundabouts and erect a median divider along a 1.3-mile stretch of Route 82 was met Thursday night with familiar criticism as being excessive and disru...

The Hudson County government named 11 Veterans of the Year for 2023 at an awards ceremony at County Prep High School in Jersey City.

Mud and boulders spilled onto highways, water overwhelmed drainage systems and tree branches fell in neighborhoods from San Diego to Los Angeles.

Throughout the desert resort city in California, anxiety set in as the storm approached.

It is these mountains, however, that make the city particularly vulnerable to Hurricane Hilary this weekend, as torrents of water washing down could overwhelm the rivers and tributaries below, creating potentially life-threatening flooding.

Email* Submit Norwich — Normally, when a big chain retail store wants to move into the same plaza as the owner of an independent surplus store with 40% of its business in that same line, it would be time to panic. But when the owners of Surplus Unlimited in the Willow Tree Plaza on West Main Street found out a real estate agent inquiring about space last December represented Harbor Freight, the Matera family decided to clear the way for the rapidly expanding tool and equ...