The Newark City Council on Tuesday preliminary approved a plan that would provide $120 million for fast-tracking a permanent solution to the city’s drinking water ...

NJTV News Correspondent Michael Hill speaks with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka about the city's ongoing lead in the water crisis and the $120 million deal with Essex County to replace ...

Newark began replacing lead lines in March, but the plan was expected to take nearly a decade and cost more than $75 million. The new ...

After weeks of being relatively silent in the face of a water crisis impacting his city, on Friday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka took reporters on ...

From the beginning, misinformation has been one of the exacerbating factors in the growing lead water crisis in the state's largest city. Here is a ...

The additional testing comes after two out of three filtered water tests came back with elevated lead levels earlier this month.

An overflow crowd that jammed Bloomfield’s Civil Center on Monday looking for answers about the safety of their drinking was offered both a measure of ...

A state lawmaker came to Newark Tuesday bearing what he saw as a goodwill gesture from a neighbor — 17,000 bottles of water for the residents of ...

Bloomfield Mayor Michael Venezia says initial tests conducted in Bloomfield have come back under the federal lead standard and the city plans to do more ...

The NRDC and a group of Newark teachers want the city to provide bottled water to the east side after elevated lead levels were discovered ...

Fears about water safety have spread beyond Newark, where federal officials have ordered the city to supply bottled water to residents after tests showed filters ...

The Newark Education Workers Caucus and the Natural Resources Defense Council have sued the city again in an effort to try and force the city ...

The medical director for New Jersey's Poison Control Center says lead in water is connected to lower blood lead levels than lead from household paint ...

Lawmakers say other parts of New Jersey aren’t far from a contaminated water crisis, one they plan to avert by strengthening the two-year-old Water Quality ...

There was worry among parents in Newark over the health of their children Tuesday, after federal officials said tests showed that tap water in some ...

Union County Assemblyman Jamel Holley, the former mayor of Roselle, says neighboring Newark needs help in a big way to address lead in its drinking ...

The governor of New jersey and the mayor of Newark have vowed to provide bottled water to city residents with lead service lines after tests ...

The new chemical will coat pipes to prevent water from being in contact with the walls of the lead pipe. But experts warn it will ...

Whether you’re trolling him or supporting him, the Newark mayor made sure to come prepared with video testimonies and receipts to back up how he ...

It’ll cost over $75 million to complete the entire residential project. Until then the city continues handing out water filters, roughly 33,000 to date.