A wildfire burning in New Jersey on Tuesday forced some residents to evacuate and closed a stretch of a major highway.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, speeding was a factor in nearly 30% of traffic fatalities in 2024.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey residents pay a lot for road maintenance — and we have some of the worst roads in the nation, writes Baruch Feigenbaum.

A safety initiative on a busy New Jersey highway has reduced fatalities by about 20%, officials said this week. The Route 1 Safer Travel Initiative was launched in Middlesex County in early 2025.

This photo provided by the New Jersey State Police shows a police officer holding a bear cub that was rescued from a ditch alongside a busy interstate highway in northern New Jersey on Wednesday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electronic highway signs across New Jersey are now displaying messages highlighting that the state is leading the way in the World ...

Spanning more than 40 miles, Route 55 may be an efficient highway, but state officials are demanding that the New Jersey Department of Transportation investigate a stretch that’s proven to be ...

A box truck and a sedan ended up at the center of a viral road-rage incident on a New Jersey highway earlier this month, with bystander video appearing to show the truck pushing the smaller vehicle ...

A tractor trailer hauling lemons lost its trailer over the jersey barrier striking an on coming vehicle in the southbound lanes of Route 17 in Mahwah, N.J., on Aug. 2, 2023. automation A ...

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — State police troopers came to the rescue of a bear cub found in a ditch along the side of a major interstate highway in northern New Jersey. Troopers from the Perryville ...