Monday's opportunity is a required first step to be considered for grant funding, according to the NJEDA, and will be open online until April 29 at 5:00 p.m. Applications will then formally open in May.

“With the growing primary care needs of our community, health equity lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, a budding, post-pandemic mental health crisis, and the community’s demand for more comprehensive and specialized care, our current facilities are bursting at the seams,” according to the facility's president and CEO, Shereef Elnahal.

Legislation allocating $10 million to support child care services across the state is a key measure in helping working parents transition back to the workplace.

The Wall Street rating agency cited "the legacy of decades of structural budget mismatches and escalating liabilities that had only partly been addressed by the time the coronavirus pandemic unfolded with the state as an initial epicenter.”

“Any scheme that discriminates against New Jersey commuters will not be supported by me or my administration, and god willing that’s something we can work out,” the governor said.

If confirmed, New Jersey-born and educated Anne Milgram will head the nation's federal law enforcement agency, tasked with combating drug trafficking and distribution within the United States.

April 12's figures are the lowest they have been in five weeks. The seven-day average was 3,173 cases, down 18% from last week but still 8% up from last month.

The state assistance is meant to help employers that have taken financial hits due to the slew of business closures and other public health restrictions amid the pandemic.

The credit rating agency will revise the state’s A3 rating from negative to stable, almost a year after it warned that New Jersey could suffer devastating economic blows because of the pandemic.

The battle over the state's budget begins in Trenton.

New Jersey – the most densely populated state in the nation with myriad roads, bridges, tunnels, trains and pipes along with clean energy aspirations – stands to reap much from the American Jobs Plan. But the program has been mired in partisan warfare since President Joe Biden unveiled the proposal.

The new bill offers assistance to establishments with up to 50 employees. “These are among the places that have been hardest hit by the pandemic,” Gov. Phil Murphy said. “Margins for our restaurants, if they’re positive at all, remain razor-thin.”