A committee of energy professionals is recommending the state streamline its Office of Clean Energy and improve its energy-efficiency programs to bring savings to ratepayers.

The state Department of Labor and Workforce Development on Friday announced the availability of $3.6 million in federal funding for retraining and re-employment opportunities for pharmaceutical workers who have been laid off.

Heartland Payment Systems, of Princeton, has been tracking the impact of the so-called Durbin Amendment, which caps bank fees charged to retailers for debit card transactions, since the law went into effect Oct. 1.

New Jersey’s municipal governments are between the rock and the hard place of reduced revenue and increased service needs, and according to the Rutgers University Center for Executive Leadership in Government, resetting the ideas of how local government works might be the only way to survive the economic downturn. Read More »

More than 1,100 Bergen County residents, officials and doctors packed a hearing in Washington Township on Wednesday night to support Hackensack University Medical Center's plans to reopen Westwood's Pascack Valley Hospital, which went bankrupt and shut down in 2007.

The back-and-forth between affordable-housing advocates and the Chris Christie administration continued in the courts Tuesday, when the Appellate Division of Superior Court blocked the "interim procedures" set forth by the Department of Community Affairs.

A rebuke of Gov. Chris Christie's pension and benefits reform law has left some bystanders wondering if it will be the first of many blows to an effort that won considerable praise from the state's business community.

Business owners have until Oct. 31 to apply for Small Business Administration disaster assistance loans for property damage sustained as a result of Hurricane Irene, but agency spokeswoman Kathy Cook said few in New Jersey have filled out the forms.