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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…

MercerMe has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium (NJCIC) to support the long-term sustainability of local news coverage serving Hopewell Valley and surrounding communities.…

Santa Claus has been making his way through Hopewell Valley this weekend — with a little help from local fire companies and EMS crews. On Saturday, Union Fire Company and Rescue…

Visitors to Washington Crossing on Saturday stepped into the winter of 1776 as Von Prueschenk’s Hessian Regiment set up camp along the Delaware River, offering demonstrations and skirmish reenactments that highlighted the…