As of the week ending Feb. 13, 10,962 New Jerseyans filed for unemployment, according to data from the federal Department of Labor - a far cry from the 155,815 and 206,253 jobless claims filed the weeks ending March 21, 2020, and March 28, 2020, respectively.

NJ Transit’s so-called “Innovation Challenge” is aimed at garnering ideas on how to increase transit capacity between the Secaucus Junction train station which sits on the Northeast Corridor line, and the Meadowlands Complex station just outside MetLife Stadium.

The lengthy stay has resulted in opportunity loss as 2019 RFA awardees don't get any real first-mover advantage in the soon-to-be-legal adult-use market.

The governor now has until Friday, Feb. 19 to decide whether he will approve the two bills on his desk - one legalizing marijuana and the other decriminalizing it - or have them automatically become law as written.

Funding through the pre-apprenticeship in career education, or PACE training program provides education and training that prepare participants for placement into a registered apprenticeship program, into a post-secondary college or occupation-specific career training program, or into the workforce.

The governor said a continued drop in hospitalizations would inevitably trigger the loosening of more restrictions. Indeed many of the key metrics used to gauge the spread of the virus have all gone down. “But I think we will be more cautious than we otherwise would have been absent the variants,” Murphy added.

The state logged 3,786 new cases on Feb. 17 with a seven-day average of 2,804, down 48% from a week ago. The rate of transmission has been below 1 for five days and a row.

The months-long rulemaking process of a massive economic incentive package is seeking thoughts that are geared toward enabling legislation and how the agency “should implement the ERA programs,” according to the NJEDA website.

The Union Township-based restoration company was contracted for six projects across the state, several of which were public contracts financed via taxpayer dollars, where they failed to pay workers the right amount or anything at all.

The Federal Transit Administration made it easier for New Jersey and New York to fund their share of the $13 billion project.

Data released by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury showed drops in the collections of both the corporate business tax and the gross income tax compared to a year ago.

The Murphy administration will be spending $100 million on statewide electric vehicle programs, through a combination of funds from the Volkswagen emissions settlement and the state’s revenue from the recently re-joined multi-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Gov. Phil Murphy, during a Feb. 16 press announcement in Newark, boasted the proposal as a means to push the ...