Senate President Stephen Sweeney  plans to move ahead with a bill that would allow local school districts to raise property taxes beyond the 2 percent annual cap that has been in effect since 2010. Sweeney, D-3rd District, said in a Nov. 23 statement that the changes are necessary because of a June 2018 “equalization” overhaul to the state’s school funding ...

New Jersey’s top Senate Democrat is proposing a change to a controversial measure that would reclassify freelance-workers to effectively scale back how many people would qualify as employees.

"We’ve had very constructive conversations with the Legislature and their teams,” Murphy told reporters Thursday at the New Jersey League of Municipalities convention in Atlantic City.

Gov. Phil Murphy's comments at the New Jersey League of Municipalities conference in Atlantic City come less than a day after Senate President Stephen Sweeny – also in the resort town for the annual event – vowed to force the governor's hand on the topic via a ballot question, should negotiations on legislation falter.

Senate President Stephen Sweeney, Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean and Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick all questioned whether the system could actually benefit the state during a Wednesday afternoon panel at the New Jersey League of Municipalities conference in Atlantic City.

The Senate President said he would make a last attempt to pass the bills in the Legislature during lame duck — before putting them before voters in 2020.

“Whenever the Legislature can’t do anything, they just punt it to the voters,” Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora said Wednesday at the annual New Jersey League of Municipalities conference in Atlantic City.

Executive Order 92 is part of the governor's broader goal for the state to be 100 percent reliant on clean and renewable energy by the year 2050. The new 2035 goal for 7,500 megawatts replaces a prior goal set for 2030.

Efforts to pass a measure during lame duck go up in smoke as Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Sen. Nicholas Scutari introduce a constitutional amendment Monday that would legalize the use of recreational cannabis for anyone at least 21 years of age, and establish a Cannabis Regulatory Commission to oversee the new market.

At a meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Economic Growth Strategies in Trenton on Monday, political powerbroker George Norcross spoke for the first time publicly about the nearly year-long investigation into New Jersey's, now-expired, corporate incentive programs.

New data from Monmouth University shows six out of 10 New Jerseyans are happy with living here.

The queries revolve around the $39 million tax break application submitted by Cooper University Health Care, where George Norcross is board chair, and an $86 million tax break application for insurance company Conner Strong & Buckelew, where he is an executive.