Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OCEAN GROVE - The first time Norma Tolliver set foot here 20 years ago, she was so enchanted by the Methodist town that she ...

In this seaside community that calls itself “God's Square Mile at the Jersey Shore,” all the land is owned by a religious group that has for generations enforced an 11th Commandment: Thou shalt stay ...

A judge has recommended the state Department of Environmental Protection allow Ocean Grove to close its beach on Sunday mornings. The state DEP had previously forced Ocean Grove to open its beach, ...

A Christian shore town will open its beach on Sunday mornings for the first time in 155 years. Since 1869, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, has kept its mile-long strip of Jersey Shore beach closed for ...

OCEAN GROVE - The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which governs much of life in a place that has been nicknamed "God's Square Mile," has been forced to allow access to the beach from its ...

An administrative court judge sided with a group fighting to keep a more-than-a-century-old tradition alive in one Jersey Shore town. "They think they need to close the beach to have service? 'Cause ...

OCEAN GROVE, NJ — Ocean Grove must open its beaches to the public starting at 9 a.m. on summer Sundays, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) mandated in this final order it ...

The Jersey Shore town called Gods Square Mile, better known as Ocean Grove, is giving in to Sunday morning beach access for the first time in 155 years — but officials say the battle is not over. The ...