A Senate panel in unanimous votes Monday approved bills that would heighten penalties for harassment against public officials and certain politically driven crimes. The legislation advanced by the ...

The New Jersey lawmaker who wanted to strip the state comptroller’s office of its investigative powers will no longer pursue his bill, caving to critics who warned the move would cripple a key state ...

A state Senate panel advanced a bill Monday that would expand New Jersey’s family leave law to businesses with at least 15 workers, a change from the current threshold of 30 employees. The bill has ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would end municipalities’ ability to charge for public defenders in a party-line vote Monday. The bill would repeal a law that allows ...

Two New Jersey lawmakers have proposed a bill that would extend new tax breaks to New Jersey diners in a bid to counter post-pandemic slowdowns and inflation. The bill, dubbed the “Saving Our Diners ...

With NJ PBS set to end operations in July after it lost state and federal funding, media and business leaders met in Trenton Monday to urge legislators to quickly find funding and ensure New Jersey ...

Gun owners looking to topple a New Jersey law banning guns in parks, bars, beaches, and other “sensitive places” have successfully persuaded a federal appeals court to rehear the case. A three-judge ...

Alina Habba, who worked as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, announced her resignation Monday as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, a week after a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel ...

Federal housing officials backpedaled Monday on a recent policy change that advocates warned would drive more than 170,000 people into homelessness. U.S. Housing and Urban Development officials sent ...

New Jersey was hailed as a model for criminal justice reform nationally when state lawmakers eliminated cash bail more than a decade ago. Supporters of the move cheered that poor defendants would no ...

New Jersey voters have been buried by so many mailers and seen so many ads supporting Democrat Sean Spiller’s bid to become the next governor, you might think he has an army of staff working around ...

The indictment unveiled Monday that accuses insurance executive and Democratic power broker George Norcross III of overseeing a criminal enterprise is replete with accusations of threats, intimidation ...