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1 day ago | nj1015.com | Jeff Deminski

To say New Jersey could use more housing is an understatement. Lack of inventory, as real estate experts phrase it, is causing a seller’s market to continue and sky-high rental prices as well. It may be a drop in the bucket for the state as a whole but a redevelopment plan being considered could be huge for Red Bank. The Red Bank Borough Planning Board recently held a public hearing on a plan to create two apartment buildings, five and six stories tall, around their NJ Transit center.

1 day ago | nj1015.com | Jeff Deminski

It’s been 20 years since Padmé died. (Oh, she died after giving birth to twins named Luke and Leia, by the way.) Twenty years since Anakin had his left arm and both legs cut off in a lightsaber battle with Obi-Wan and was left for dead near the lava. Twenty years since Liea was brought to Alderaan and since Obi-Wan delivered Luke to be raised by his step-uncle and step-aunt. Twenty years since Palpatine and Vader (Anakin) began supervising the construction of the Death Star.

1 day ago | nj1015.com | Dan Alexander

Large portions of Ocean County and beyond are still feeling the effects of the largest wildfire so far this year in New Jersey, prompting officials to declare a local state of emergency. About 25,000 homes and businesses remain without power as firefighters tackle a blaze that, as of Tuesday night, had burned 13.2 square miles of the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area.

1 day ago | nj1015.com | Dan Alexander

KNOWLTON — The driver of a school bus carrying 25 students that got into a single-vehicle crash on Route 80 was charged with driving while intoxicated on Saturday. Acting Warren County Prosecutor Jessica Cardone said the bus became disabled in the westbound left lane in Knowlton around 7:45 a.m. with heavy front end damage. One person on board was injured. State Police troopers responding to the crash said the driver, Pierre R.

1 day ago | nj1015.com | Dan Zarrow

It feels weird — and even wrong — to talk excitedly about our current streak beautiful springtime weather, when a massive wildfire continues to burn in southern Ocean County. The Jones Road Wildfire broke out in the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area on Tuesday. And it has sparked mandatory evacuations, road closures (including the Parkway and Route 9), and power outages around Lacey, Waretown, Forked River, and Barnegat. Wildfires are scary.