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Camden County: Changes to COVID-19 testing site hours of operation April 16, 2021, 1:23 pm | in   Changes to COVID-19 testing site hours of operation (Camden, NJ) – In response to the continued decrease in demand for COVID-19 testing throughout Camden County, operating hours for county-operated testing sites will change in the coming weeks. The reorientation of the county’s testing strategy comes as the rate of new cases of COVID-19 remains below its peak in the fall and winter, and as the availability of testing from other providers has increased. Additionally, u...

Around 97% of Camden residents have access to a park, but only 70% report using the city’s parks at least once a month. Camden leaders hope to change that in 30 years’ time.

For most of us dealing with a COVID winter, being forced to stay inside by cold temperatures, winter storms and snow is just one more challenge in year that has been, to put it charitably, incredibly challenging. But for people huddled under highway overpasses in Camden, in tented encampments in Pemberton Township's woods, or wandering the streets of Cumberland County's downtowns, finding a way to escape the elements can be a matter of life or death. Making sure homeless people have a warm, safe place to go when temperatures plunge can be difficult under normal circumstances, but as COVID-19...

CAMDEN -  One person died and two were injured in a fiery crash here, authorities say. Gary Lawrence, 51, of Woodlynne lost his life in a crash in the Lanning Square neighborhood around 9:10 p.m. Friday, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. Lawrence was a passenger in a car that struck multiple parked vehicles and a pedestrian on South 4th Street between Benson and Stevens street, the prosecutor's office said in a statement Tuesday. "The vehicle then hit a concrete barrier and caught fire," it said. A memorial of flowers, balloons and candles now marks a damaged median barrie...