A house in Fairfield that sold for $13.9 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Essex ...

Sisters died on Thanksgiving trying to save their father from a fire in an Essex County home, prosecutors said.

Two county Democratic organizations have announced their endorsement convention schedules in the special election for ...

State legislators from Essex County have been busy in the halls of Trenton. Catch up with some of the latest laws they've ...

Jun. 6—ELIZABETHTOWN — The only countywide race in the Essex County Primary Election is between two Republicans seeking to be the next county clerk. Chelsea Merrihew (R), the deputy county clerk, is ...

Essex County said it will stop providing health insurance to its elected commissioners, a controversial perk that has cost taxpayers more than $730,000 over the past seven years. Though the ...

The Essex County hatchery raised brook, brown and rainbow trout for stocking in waters around the county since 1928.

The new Essex County Fairgrounds at Westport was under way. “The work of grading the new Fair Grounds at Westport is actively progressing,” the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette reported on May 26, 1881.