Political contributions from public contractors in 2011 declined for the fifth straight year, though the 5 percent decrease was the smallest since 2007, a report from the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission showed today.

Redeveloping city retail districts and revitalizing abandoned buildings were among the topics covered by a wide-ranging summit held by the New Jersey Urban Mayors Association today in Trenton.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker today publicly ripped into New Jersey Devils owner Jeffrey Vanderbeek, calling him a "liar" and "bamboozler" a day after arbitrators ruled on the city's long-running legal battle with team ownership over rent and revenues from the Prudential Center.

A certificate of need application filed by Hackensack University Medical Center and LHP Hospital Group Inc. to take ownership of Mountainside Hospital, in Montclair, was deemed complete by the state on Monday, with a public hearing scheduled for April 19, a Department of Health and Senior Services...

With what will be New Brunswick's newest supermarket as a backdrop, state officials and business leaders today announced an expanded program to spur and finance the development of grocery stores in New Jersey's most underserved regions.

With oral arguments complete, New Jersey business leaders are now playing wait-and-speculate as the Supreme Court justices prepare to deliberate on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

A lack of third-party consultants and a scarcity of state funding could put the brakes on municipal consolidation efforts, a panel of experts from the Princetons, Merchantville and Cherry Hill said today at an event sponsored by Courage to Connect New Jersey, a nonprofit that educates residents about consolidation. Read More »

After reopening the bidding process on Friday, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded Christ Hospital, in Jersey City, to Hudson Holdco LLC, the for-profit owner of Bayonne Medical Center and Hoboken University Medical Center.

State Supreme Court nominee Phillip H. Kwon faced a series of questions over his family's liquor store in the first hour of the confirmation hearing over his nomination.