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 ...

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 ...

NEPTUNE -- Ocean Grove will be required to open its beach from the boardwalk on Sunday mornings during the summer, the Department of Environmental Protection said in the agency's final decision on a ...

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 ...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has delayed its decision on Ocean Grove's Sunday morning beach closures until Dec. 26. The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which owns the ...

The Christian community in Ocean Grove, N.J., is challenging a state order that has compelled it to let its beach be used on Sunday mornings. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey A conservative Christian nonprofit ...

Hundreds of sun-worshipers flocked to a New Jersey beach for the first time in 155 years Sunday morning — after state officials ordered the Christian sect that owns the sandy stretch to stop blocking ...

The long-running controversy over Sunday morning beach access from the boardwalk in Ocean Grove in Monmouth County has hit another delay. Monday was supposed to be the deadline for state Department of ...

Developers want to construct a state-of-the-art facility on the beachfront in Ocean Grove to replace the burned-down North End Pavilion.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of sun-worshipers flocked to a New Jersey beach for the first time in 155 years Sunday morning — after state officials ...