Island Heights

No injuries are being reported after Beachwood volunteer fire crews douse a car and structure fire within hours Monday morning.

It was only back in February that we brought you the news of the expansion of popular Monmouth County healthy treat chain Playa Bowls into Ocean County.

Water quality issues prompt Ocean County Health Department officials to issue swim advisories for bay and river beaches in Brick, Island Heights, Stafford, Beachwood and Seaside Park.

Only a few years from now, a generation coming of age in Ocean County will have little or no recollection of Lakewood's Tent City. It doesn't mean that such encampments no longer exist.

They are asking to borrow three-million dollars to cover the cost of repairs for a new roof, ventilation system, rest rooms and other needed fix ups.

An early morning crash on Route 37 East in Island Heights leaves a snarl at West End Avenue that's likely to continue until tomorrow - and will probably keep about 125 homes without electricity for the duration.

The mystery of the discolored tap water in sections of Island Heights is solved by the sleuths in the borough's Public Works Department, and it's an episode in the sometimes-uneasy relationship between the mechanical and technological.

If you live in Island Heights, check the water running from your taps. If it's discolored, borough police want to hear from you.

The Toms River man accused of leaving his dog to die in a pickup truck after it fell into the Toms River last March faces trial on two counts of animal cruelty and one count of criminal mischief.

A Toms River teacher, a former Ocean County Roads Department employee, a onetime Camden County police officer and the son of a prominent shore lawyer are among 32 arrestees in a New Jersey State Police takedown of drug rings infiltrating Ocean and Monmouth Counties.