New Jersey’s gas tax will rise 4.2 cents per gallon on Jan. 1, the rate driven higher by slightly lower fuel use and a 2024 state law that boosted the tax’s collection targets. The increase will bring ...

Anyone looking to recover from holiday spending sprees might want to check with New Jersey’s treasury department. The state is holding onto $7 billion in unclaimed funds and property, waiting on their ...

Critics say NJ's paid family leave law should not apply to businesses with fewer than 30 workers. Supporters say workers need ...

In 2014, New Jersey voters backed a constitutional amendment to allow judges to order certain criminal suspects be detained without bail and pushed the courts away from holding minor offenders ...

New Jersey’s hemp industry is at a regulatory standstill after the state announced that “at this time” it won’t enforce a new law temporarily banning hemp sales, four days after a federal judge upheld ...

Top Democratic legislators distanced themselves from controversial new equity rules approved by the State Board of Education this week. The new rules, adopted as part of a required septennial rewrite, ...

New Jersey legislators diverted $45 million from national opioid settlement funds to four hospitals in the $58.8 billion state budget they approved Monday — a last-minute surprise that drove ...

A South Jersey state senator’s accusations that Attorney General Matthew Platkin is using his office to pursue political vendettas are “outrageous, totally ridiculous, and wrong,” Platkin said Monday.

Several state legislators want to take the New Jersey State Police out of the state attorney general’s supervision and make it its own entity, a move that comes amid escalating tensions between the ...

New Jersey’s acting state comptroller, who’s been under fire since the spring from politicians piqued after becoming targets of his watchdog investigations, is battling two new court fights. The ...

Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed legislation codifying New Jersey’s move to redesign its primary ballots, though some provisions of the new law have left voting and good government advocates ...

The rising cost of electricity became a central focus of the governor’s race on Wednesday when Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) pledged to freeze utility rates if she’s elected and Jack Ciattarelli (R) argued ...