It was when Jon Perper was running a bowling alley that a lightbulb went off. … And off, and off again.

In the last days of the steam locomotive rumbling through the Garden State, New Jersey was an epicenter for groundbreaking inventors.

Any small business owner who was launching a startup a decade ago, right before the financial crisis hit, had to face up to an unfortunate fact: There was never a worse time to have a good idea.

The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce elected eight new members to its board of directors earlier this month.

The Atlantic City Development Corp. hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Gateway project on Thursday, with dignitaries including Gov. Chris Christie, ACDevco Chairman Jon Hanson, South Jersey Industries CEO Michael Renna and Stockton University President Harvey Kesselman.

The hospitality industry’s conventional answer to the endless waste that came from updating its facilities — the sheer volume of furniture in hundreds of hotel rooms, the thousands of square feet of carpeting and wall materials — wasn’t what one might call eco-friendly. It all went to the landfill.

Green energy industry watchers such as Lyle Rawlings can be quick to sound the alarm. When they see potential threats to their sector, they aren't shy about making it known — and understandably so, having seen New Jersey's renewable energy market bottom out in the sometimes-volatile industry's history.

Princetel is the greenest company you've never heard of.

New Jersey residents should know that if a Pierce fire truck arrives at their house in an emergency, they are in good hands, David Russell said.

Nametags were distributed last Wednesday night at Brookdale Community College for those attending a public hearing on Jersey Central Power & Light’s proposed $111 million, 230-kilovolt transmission line along a stretch of New Jersey Transit’s North Jersey Coast Line in Monmouth County.