The Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office says a jury found 45-year-old Bruce Duette guilty of first-degree murder earlier ...

The copperhead is one of the most famous of all snakes in the United States. Along with that fame, people often confuse other ...

New Jersey is home to a rich diversity of snake species, and several of its lakes and rivers are teeming with slithering ...

The wildfire, which was determined to be the second largest in New Jersey in the past 20 years, consumed more than 15,000 acres of the Pine Barrens.

The sparing of local residents and homes in this fire was no happy accident. Land use in this area of the state has long been guided by the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. That plan, created ...

The New Jersey man charged with sparking a wildfire that ravaged parts of the Pine Barrens in Ocean County attempted to deny responsibility, blaming it instead on two “Mexicans” he could not ...

A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second-largest fire in nearly two decades. Prosecutors said Friday that ...