Aldermen tabled without discussion a measure to raise salaries for themselves and top city officials at their meeting Monday night. Instead, they spent much of the evening listening to heated public comment on new AT&T utility boxes that residents say could have a negative impact on their quality of life.

Job center at Port Newark is designed to help local residents Port Newark—one of the largest and most active in the country, and yet one of the most underutilized by the city for jobs. The city and BCDC are planning to change that by building a career center to help get Newarkers the skills they need or [...]

When the fire alarm sounded in Smith Hall on a recent Tuesday morning, residents were asked to abandon their preparations for early classes and exit the building. Many left their rooms to go downstairs to see what had happened, while others lingered in their rooms and in the hallways to see if this was just another false alarm.

Councils will be ordered to stop spying on local residents amid Government concerns over the continuing creep of the surveillance state. Telegraph | Sep 19, 2008 By Rosa Prince Ministers from the Department of Communities and the Home Office have undertaken a thorough review of official surveillance powers, some of which are open to public bodies such local [...]

East side residents near the railroad tracks finally will get a good night's sleep, says one, after the debut Thursday of "Quiet Zone No. 4," a series of rail crossings where trains no longer will blow their whistles. "We're just as happy as can be," said Steve Rudolph, who has worked for years to silence [...]

Please help?so the Salvation Army Dont come to?our small town. They?will bring the wrong croud to our small community. I am a small business trying to make it, how do they expect me?to make it with such a large corp.?comming to a small town. We Davison residents and business owners need to stick together or there will be no down town left!