Ocean County News

LAKEWOOD, NJ – Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that an investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Squad-Arson Unit, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime …

TOMS RIVER – Houses of Worship will now be permitted on just 2-acres.  This comes after the Council voted  6-to-1 to ditch the 10-acre requirement.  Under the new rules, smaller …

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has extended the COVID-19 public health state of emergency order once again. This marks the thirteenth time the governor has extended the 30 …

TOMS RIVER, NJ – An Orthodox Jewish man who served time in the Ocean County Jail on domestic charges is now claiming he was mistreated by jail staff who didn’t …

TRENTON, NJ – As Governor Murphy moves to increase indoor capacity in restaurants, salons, barbers, gyms and other indoor businesses this Friday, he also gave New Jersey a stern warning.  With …

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ – The cap on indoor dining is increasing to 50% on Friday in New Jersey. Ahead of the upcoming summer tourism season, this year, restaurants and businesses …

LAKEWOOD, NJ – Congressman Chris Smith has announced that vaccine distribution locations in Lakewood Township will bypass the Murphy administration and begin getting their vaccinations directly from the federal government. …

JACKSON, NJ – The Pastrami House Delicatessen is coming to Jackson Township. The sandwich chain which has locations in  Matawan, Berkeley Heights, Hoboken and Lincroft is coming to the Cooksbridge …

Senator Christopher Connors, Assemblyman Brian Rumpf, and Assemblywoman DiAnne Gove called out Governor Murphy’s Administration for cutting vaccine doses to Ocean County, as the County Health Department is set to …

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ – Ocean County Commissioner Virginia E. Haines has been holding preliminary and private discussions to build a county-sponsored homeless shelter on a site in Jackson where the …

POINT PLEASANT, NJ – If you check out the Amethyst Beach Motel in Point Pleasant on travel website review pages, it’s pretty much everything you would expect from a Jersey …

HOWELL TOWNSHIP, NJ –  The Howell Township Police are searching for a suspect in a pickup truck with a track record of lewdness who exposed himself to a woman at …

BRICK TOWNSHIP, NJ – Brick 70 Developers LLC  has moved forward with their 2019 approvals to build a Panera Bread and Wawa, and construction is moving ahead.  The two were …

HOWELL TOWNSHIP, NJ – When the Howell Xscape Theater opened just four years ago, it filled a much-needed theater entertainment void in the Howell, Jackson, and Lakewood area.  It became …

TOMS RIVER, NJ -Two young dogs were found in pretty rough shape near the Ocean County Mall this past weekend.  According to the Toms River Police Department, they were rescued …

TOMS RIVER, NJ – In January, the New Jersey Department of Health cut Ocean County’s monthly vaccine number by 40%, instead, sending those vaccines to lower-income and impoverished areas of …

TOMS RIVER, NJ – An accident that occurred on the Mathis Bridge connecting Pelican Island to mainland Toms River sent an elderly Lavallette woman to the hospital. According to the …

BRICK,  NJ –  The massive 170-acre fire that destroyed commercial buildings in Lakewood and threatened one of Ocean County’s busiest retail corridors has been brought completely under control.   As of …

LAKEWOOD, NJ – Despite two severe amputation injuries in 2018 and 2020 on the same machine at a Lakewood ice cream manufacturing plant, a recent federal safety and health inspection found …

TOMS RIVER, NJ – The hardest thing about getting a vaccine at the Ocean County Health Department’s vaccination site inside the gym at Toms River High School North is actually …

TOMS RIVER, NJ – A man from Brick Township has been charged for purposefully running over and killing a family of geese at the Indian Head Plaza in Toms River. …

LAKEWOOD, NJ – A forest fire that burned through 170 acres between Lakewood Township and Brick Township continued to burn into the night as hundreds of firefighters from the region …

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ – An Orthodox Jewish teenager was rescued this morning by volunteers, according to a report in the Lakewood Scoop. The boy was dropped off near his Yeshiva …

BRICK TOWNSHIP, NJ – The Hilton Garden Inn, located in the path of the fire that started earlier this afternoon in Lakewood is being evacuated. Here’s what we know so …

LAKEWOOD, NJ – Lakewood Fire Chief John Yahr today said moments ago that a fire that began in Lakewood Township has quickly spread and is headed south toward Brick Township. …