LONG BRANCH, NJ — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has now identified what caused approximately 1,000 pounds of small pieces of tar to wash up on Jersey Shore beaches at the end of November.

If you live in New Jersey and you want to light a fire pit in your backyard tonight, you might be violating the state’s fire restrictions that went into effect this week to help reduce the risk ...

Today, the La Brea Tar Pits, a public park and museum, lie between shopping centers and apartment buildings. But the sticky, black asphalt that fills the pits was oozing up from the ground long before ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits work almost every day to pull fossils out of the ground, clean, and prepare them for further research. With 4 million specimens ...

Washington Township Police and Fire Department personnel responded to a large brush fire Friday night, Nov. 8. The blaze, ...

Read full article: Just two of 15 wild geese found trapped in Los Angeles tar pits have survived After a flock of 15 wild Canada geese mistakenly landed in the Los Angeles Tar Pit’s hot and ...

You know about the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles right? I am sure that you have heard of them, if not seen them before in movies. Basically, what they are is a big much of petroleum and ...

But many in Phillipsburg don’t want shiny and new; they want their old, dusty, loud Pit, which many consider the best high school sports venue in New Jersey. RELATED: (PHOTOS) Phillipsburg ...

A former longtime general counsel to Moody's was sentenced by a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday to 8 months in prison for willfully failing to file personal federal income tax returns.

A New Jersey cop was hit by a ricochet bullet on Monday as officers attempted to save a 10-year-old boy who was being attacked by dogs, according to the the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Did you know that people can discover fossils in a major city? Head to the La Brea Tar Pits to see an active dig site in the heart of Los Angeles. The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago ...

If your kids go crazy for dinosaurs – and really, what kid doesn't? – then a visit to La Brea Tar Pits is sure to be the highlight of their trip. Although the pits look like the set of a ...