Stemming the addiction crisis, starting in the emergency room. Where routinely prescribed opioid painkillers are being substituted with safer alternatives.

Concerns about lead in the water in Newark schools have led to a call for lead testing in every school.

Concerns about keeping patient records private have the feds auditing health care providers for HIPAA violations.

Parents are fighting threats to fire a tenth of the staff in Trenton schools in order to close a budget deficit.

A town looking for taxable revenue from tax exempt hospitals is expanding its targets to include nursing homes.

And Bergen County marks a centennial of the Easter Rising that led to independence for the Irish and their descendants.