Public Safety

Juntos and legal aid nonprofits are working to help community members develop family preparedness plans.

The company has tested air, creeks, soot and debris from the fire. It plans to continue air and water monitoring “for the foreseeable future.”

A Rutgers Health report finds that under 1% of gun owners use their weapon defensively each year.

New report recommends four bridges connecting N.J. and Philly should have safety standards checked. The DRPA says the root problem is how large ships operate.

The District Attorney and retired judge will face each other in a May 20 primary.

Underground cables overheated and caught fire, causing a manhole cover to explode, cutting power for two blocks.

Sudiksha Konanki is a Virginia resident and a student at the University of Pittsburgh. She was vacationing in Punta Cana with five others when she went missing last week.

The state Department of Environmental Protection found Energy Transfer broke state law with the leak.

Students at the Transitions School will learn job skills and earn work experience operating the cafe at the library system’s Westampton branch, officials said.

The bill was part of a state-sponsored test of using speed cameras to enforce school zone speed limits. Its future is now uncertain.

Air traffic control audio captured the pilot reporting that the aircraft “has an open door, we need to return for a landing.”

Preliminary investigations found the pilot’s black box recorder did not record audio from the Jan. 31 flight and likely hadn’t worked in years.

The lawsuit alleges French company Arkema negligently discharged PFAS into the Goose Creek watershed in West Chester.

Residents said environmental oversight is crucial as they continue to grapple with the impacts of the industrial disaster in their own backyards.

In a recording obtained by WHYY, a Camden County official said it was “by the grace of God” neighboring sewage treatment operations were spared.