A New Jersey lottery player won a $1.45 million Jersey Cash 5 jackpot on Thursday, April 16. The winning ticket worth $1,459,039 was sold in Middlesex County, the New Jersey Lottery announced on Friday.

Democrat Analilia Mejia and Republican Joe Hathaway are competing for the remainder of New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill's unfinished term in the House, after Sherrill resigned to take up her current office after her 2025 election win.

The week’s warm weather in New Jersey will also warm bay waters, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly. However, the water temperature change will be gradual, uneven and very location‑dependent.

A tractor-trailer crashed into an overpass on Route 295 in Marlton, New Jersey, Thursday afternoon, causing traffic to back up. The truck crashed into the Route 38 overpass, causing the disruption. Traffic was stopped in both directions but has started to move slowly as of 1:40 p.

It comes as fellow comedian Rhys James also had a sold-out show at the same venue last October, and Tom Davis, who as appeared in the movie Wonka and TV show Murder in Successville, will bring a show to the Jersey Opera House in the summer.

More than 100 people donated funds for the project to protect the beaches in this New Jersey Shore community, officials said.

Get live updates and the latest news on the Trump administration as New Jersey voters head to the polls for special election to fill New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill's former House seat and the House votes on protections from deportation for Haitian immigrants.