tent city

Before residents of Lakewood’s Tent City must leave the woods, they will be given housing for at least a year according to a principle agreement reached Friday.

Residents of a New Jersey homeless encampment will not be evicted from their tents in the woods without being offered indoor housing for at least a year under terms of an agreement reached Friday.

One is a nurse with three college degrees who says she was hit by a car and disabled. Another says he was born with brain damage and has bipolar disorder.

Just a formality. That's what Lakewood Mayor Al Akerman is calling violations ordering a so-called Tent City to remove all its tents and wood-burning stoves by today.

Bitter Arctic air continues to plague the Garden State with unbearable temperatures. Just think - just six months ago, we were all complaining about 90 degree weather and a series of heatwaves during the Summer season. Now, it's a total 180.

The candidates made the rounds of their neighborhood, canvassing voters who live in canvas.

Representatives of two medical groups have donated winter clothing, medicine and supplies to residents of Tent City, a homeless encampment in the woods of Lakewood.

A New Jersey man who once lived in a waterfront home at the Jersey shore now lives in a teepee made of plastic tarpaulins in muddy, mosquito-infested woods.

The leader of Lakewood's Tent City is facing some additional legal trouble, right as the encampment is in a legal mediation with the town.

The leader of Lakewood's Tent City is facing another set of charges hours after he was released from the Ocean County Jail yesterday. Police confirm Steve Brigham was arrested on criminal mischief and additional witness tampering charges on Wednesday night.