School leaders say maintenance issues have piled up after repairs put off for years

Federal hearing into the fatal cargo-ship fire continues on Wednesday

New Jersey Red Cross volunteers work to fulfill the organization's goal of reducing fire-related deaths and injuries by 25 percent.

The bills considered during the voting sessions were almost entirely noncontroversial. It's the lame duck session with a new legislature being sworn in on Jan. ...

Two AvalonBay apartment fires in Edgewater and Maplewood have some fire safety advocates looking to strengthen codes and restrict the type of lightweight wood construction ...

The governor is dealt a setback on relaxing certification rules for charter schools. The scandal ended long ago, but the fallout lingers and is a ...

The Campus Fire Safety Education Act would create a $15 million annual grant program that would authorize direct funding to colleges and universities to implement, ...

Trump's travel ban is testing constitutional law and the limits of executive power. And triggering rising resistance. At the airports, an immigrant detention center and ...

Another town's declared itself a sanctuary city. But without legal standing, who might it protect? Trump has tapped a casino mogul to his regulatory reform ...

More than 200 fires in the U.S. each year are started by Christmas trees or holiday decorations.

Firefighters say solar panel installation creates limited access to the roof, where they vent the smoke from a burning building, and poses the threat of ...

With hundreds of road projects on hold and hundreds of workers idled, Democratic lawmakers call on leadership to break the impasse over the Transportation Trust ...