The region's prolonged drought has created a flammable landscape heading into the state's peak season for blazes.

A $5,000 reward has been offered for information leading investigators to Danielle Lopez, who was last seen a year ago.

“I was born in New Jersey, grew up in New Jersey, was educated in three public schools and a university in New Jersey, and had never heard of the Pine Barrens before 1966, when I first went down ...

the nonprofit dedicated to promoting the preservation of the Long Island Central pine barrens as open space, said at burn sites, "it might take 10 years to see something like a tree, but new ...

In the barrens’ typically sandy, nutrient-poor soil, crowded trees are less robust and produce less pitch, which is the pine’s only defense against burrowing insects. The crowding also helps ...

Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency as state agencies responded to fires in the Pine Barrens, a wooded area near commuter towns east of New York City. She warned that homes ...

Long before John McPhee’s “The Pine Barrens” was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was seen as a wasteland by the unfamiliar, a place full of pirate ...