Monmouth/Ocean News

A Lakewood man has plead guilty to drug and weapons charges stemming from a 2016 motor vehicle stop where police found him in possession of fentanyl and a handgun with a high capacity magazine.

The Partnership for a Drug Free New Jersey is hosting a town hall in Toms River, one of Ocean County's hardest hit areas, where residents and experts are invited to share their thoughts on the opioid epidemic and seek help for others or themselves.

The federal suit filed by Ocean County slams the "overreaching directive" put into action by NJ's Attorney General.

The number of contractors committing Sandy Fraud continues to mount even higher across the Jersey Shore.

A Toms River has admitted via a guilty plea to dealing heroin, cocaine and marijuana that he stashed at homes in the township and in Lakewood.

An Ocean Township man, who is tied to at least eight other car burglaries in the area, tried committing the same crime with the driver still inside the vehicle.

More than $540 million in illness-related costs were inflicted in New Jersey by Superstorm Sandy, according to a new report on health and climate change.

Vape users should not buy products off the street or add their own substances to devices, state officials warned.

A Bayville man is arrested for his ties to burglaries that occurred along Route 9 since June.

Ocean Township Police have arrested a quartet of suspects linked to car burglaries that took place earlier this month.

An Ocean Gate man has plead guilty to two counts of robbery stemming from bank robberies in Toms River and Lanoka Harbor earlier this summer.

Monmouth County investigators are looking for the cause of a Thursday morning fire at a home in Ocean Township last week but are also trying to find a missing person from that residence.