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On a quiet hallway inside an unused office building at the Princeton West Innovation Campus, Officer Robert Voorhees paused just long enough to let his partner, Riley, get excited about…

Hopewell Borough Councilman David Mackie has spent 27 years helping guide the town through decisions that often stretched far beyond a single meeting agenda. Known for his patience, analytical style,…

In 2025, MercerMe showed what a small, local newsroom can do when a community depends on it — and when readers make use of the reporting every day. The stories…

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC) announced that its new toll rate structure for 2026 will take effect on the first second of the new year on January…

Sunny skies and temperatures in the 40s helped draw a large crowd to Washington Crossing on Thursday for the 73rd annual Christmas Day reenactment of General George Washington’s 1776 crossing…

Pennington resident Patricia Smith has won the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry for Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, a sweeping, career-spanning volume that gathers new poems alongside work drawn from her many…

A swastika was discovered in a Timberlane Middle School bathroom on Monday afternoon, prompting immediate investigation and renewed calls from Hopewell Valley Regional School District leaders for a unified response…

Days after frazil ice once again disrupted operations at its Delaware River intake and triggered a regionwide Water Conservation Advisory, Trenton Water Works (TWW) has issued a request for proposals seeking outside…

Attorney General Matthew Platkin has announced that Mercedes-Benz will pay nearly $150 million to settle claims that it installed illegal software in hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles to make…

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