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On April 12, 1976, Joyce Packey Steins ex-husband and her boyfriend found her on the...

The plans for Terrell Homes in Newark have changed, but the housing authority says it's due to safety and health issues.

I always thought it was a little cruel to call New Jersey the Garden State. We’re famous for our pollution. The state has more Superfund sites than another other, 114, and I grew up near four of them in Newark, a particular nexus for toxic filth. The tap water is often poisonous. Our industrial zone has several waste management and processing plants. Soon, just under 2 miles from my front door here, another plant may rise, where “biosolids”—or treated waste, aka poop—would be funneled...

“Sometimes I wish I could move to another state where there’s no water around,” she said. The water is a constant, creeping threat in Atlantic City, where the sea level rise has caused an increase in sunny day flooding. These days, it only takes a particularly high tide, which reaches more than a foot higher than it did a century ago, for water to spill onto the city’s streets. As many as 1,640 affordable housing units in New Jersey are vulnerable to coastal flooding at least once per...