Newark

Lionsgate, Great Point Studios, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center are partnering on an endeavor that will revitalize a Newark housing complex into a 300,000-square foot production facility.

Plans are underway to repurpose the old Fourth Precinct — where the Newark riots began — into an exhibition space as well as the headquarters for the Center for Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery. 

Despite the easing of most COVID-19 restrictions, landlords in Newark are still unable to raise rents on their properties due to a moratorium on rent increases on rent-controlled apartments.

The Newark-born Queen Latifah was on hand for a ceremony that marked the final portion of the project’s construction, as pre-leasing at the development is expected to soon commence.

A good spot for mudlarking requires two things — an old city and a river. Newark has both, and treasure hunters have found a trove of arrowheads, 19th-century coins, and Victorian inkwells along the riverbanks.

Ahavas Sholom is Newark's longest operating synagogue. But the pandemic nearly robbed them of that honor.

The second-largest hospital in Newark, and the only state-run hospital in New Jersey, is chronically over capacity. However, a new facility is in the works that would ease the strain.

With nearly weekly shootings and gun arrests that have increased by 360 percent compared to last year, Newark's West Ward is hoping their new city council candidates have some solutions.

RoboBurger's innovative system for vending machine burgers has been launched in Jersey City.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was recently held to celebrate Gant-Gilbert Arts Collective, the new artist housing development in Newark, New Jersey.