WARETOWN -- Traffic remained slow through Ocean County Tuesday night due to highway and roads closures from a massive wildfire in Barnegat, Waretown and Lacey. As of 6:40 p.m. Tuesday, southbound ...

Joseph Kling said there 20 people at the bonfire authorities allege sparked the massive Jones Road wildfire, and 16 remained ...

The Jones Road wildfire, which began in the Pine Barrens near the Barnegat-Waretown municipal boundary shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday, moved northward into Lacey by the evening hours, forcing the ...

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service said the Jones Road wildfire went from 75% contained Monday to 80% Thursday.

The Jones Road wildfire in Ocean County is 100% contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service announced Monday.

On Monday, May 12, 2025, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service confirmed the Jones Road Wildfire in Ocean and Lacey townships in Ocean County was 100% contained after burning a total of 15,300 acres.

Authorities arrested the 19-year-old from Waretown, New Jersey, and charged him with arson and aggravated arson in the fire that’s still burning in southern New Jersey that they described as started ...

A judge said the extraordinary nature of the case, involving one of the largest wildfires in the state in decades, warranted ...

WARETOWN -- A second teenage boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the Jones Road wildfire that has consumed more than 15,000 acres across Ocean County, authorities said.