In a listening session, Attorney General Jennifer Davenport noted that the state control of the Paterson police is near the ...

Paterson council members failed to increase sewer fees, which the state wanted in exchange for budget bailout money. Now even schools are hurting.

The controversial plan to close four Paterson elementary schools and reconfigure grade levels for four others is facing a growing community backlash.

State officials attributed the Paterson group losing out on $500,000 to a cut in federal funding for victim assistance programs.

The money is designed for schools to help provide social, health, nutrition, and mental health services in low-income areas. Passaic is also affected.

PATERSON — An 18-year-old man was fatally shot in Paterson’s crime-plagued 4th Ward on the evening of March 11, minutes after gunfire erupted on a different street less than a mile away, according to ...

PATERSON — Four of five citywide “elementary choice schools” will be dissolved after the current academic year, with those students being reassigned to the schools in their neighborhoods in the fall.