Justin Auciello

A southern Ocean County municipality is the latest to adopt a plastic bag ban at the Jersey Shore.

A Shore woman banned from owning animals has been charged with neglecting eight dogs, authorities said. Laura J. Giacini, 53, of T ...

The family dog alerted the residents to the fire before the smoke detector activated, allowing them to escape unharmed.

As part of a beach fill and dune construction project along the northern Ocean County coast, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dredging and pumping sand on Ortley Beach.

The juvenile whale - estimated to be more than 30-feet-long - was freed Wednesday, months after the first reports of entanglement by a piece of gill net.

Other proposals include multiple smaller flood barriers, flood walls, berms, and levees.

In the last week, people have died after being pulled from the ocean off Island Beach State Park, Normandy Beach, and Surf City. 

The dangerous and invasive clinging jellyfish continue to head south along the Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, a marine biologist says.

A fast-moving fire that destroyed five businesses at a New Jersey strip mall has been deemed suspicious. The Ocean County Prosecut ...

Waves from the strengthening Tropical Storm Chris and associated rip currents will begin to impact New Jersey by midweek. 

For the fourth consecutive summer season, a Portuguese man-of-war has been found on a New Jersey beach.

Fourth of July fireworks shows didn't go off as planned in two New Jersey communities after a vendor failed to deliver the fireworks.