The 7.57% tax levy increase will cost about $51 extra per month, or $616 extra per year, on a home assessed at the municipal ...

Authorities say Joseph Kling, 19, deliberately started the fire by soaking wooden pallets in gasoline and setting them aflame ...

School administrators said this tentative budget is not ideal - it’s a compromise to maintain local control rather than a ...

With several school districts facing insufficient funding, local municipalities look to solve this problem by raising ...

The district is running out of time to balance the budget and still has a shortfall of $6.5 million. Trump Suffers Legal Blow ...

LACEY -- The Lacey Township Board of Education struck a compromise for the coming school year that will restructure the district's elementary schools, raise taxes and increase class sizes ...

As fire crews continue making headway in their effort to douse the wildfire burning in Ocean County, all mandatory and ...

The Lacey Township Board of Education approved a 7.57% tax levy increase for the 2025-26 school year. The increase, a compromise from a previously proposed 14% hike, aims to address rising costs ...

A Waretown man accused of starting a wildfire that destroyed 15,300 acres in southern Ocean County was released from jail on ...

That has already increased our permanent rates." Officials in the New Jersey Department of Education had offered Lacey, a township of about 30,000, the opportunity to raise school taxes this year ...