The new Texting hotline, created in partnership with the NJ 21 nonprofit referral center, allows anyone to text the words ...

The City of Newark officially launched a major expansion of street outreach efforts for homeless residents on Wednesday. It is part of Mayor Ras Baraka’s ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said Wednesday a program that has cut homelessness by half will be expanded. It's ...

Newark officials have slapped a lien notice on a 21-story downtown apartment building where residents say they’ve been ...

Residents say their aging building's management company abruptly quit, leaving them in the dark as well as the cold ...

“The majority was aggravated assaults,” said Miranda, who Mayor Ras J. Baraka promoted last month from Newark’s uniformed ...

The six Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for governor in 2025 are Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Mayor Steve ...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka has proposed eliminating odd-year elections, which the modern-day founding fathers opposed explicitly at the 1947 State Constitutional Convention. The ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka would support a constitutional amendment to eliminate New Jersey’s odd-year elections, a move that would see the state elect governors and state legislators in federal election ...

Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, 5% for teachers union leader Sean Spiller, and 4% for Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop. There is a limit to what can be extrapolated from the ...