What's been called one of the most ambitious projects in Newark moved ahead into a new phase today, as Hollister Construction Services started on the second building of the Teachers Village, a mixed-use project headed by RBH Group.

Carol Ann Short, a former counsel to the New Jersey General Assembly Republican Office, has been named acting CEO of the New Jersey Builders Association, the trade association for the state’s construction industry.

After three months of slow growth, optimism among New Jersey small-business owners has retreated, declining 1.3 points in March, according to the latest report by the National Federation of Independent Business.

While his handling of the economy cost Chris Christie a few points in the latest Rutgers-Eagleton poll, that's not true of business owners, which have largely approved of the governor's leadership on issues critical to how they run their companies.

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Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp., parent of Jersey Central Power & Light, announced today the retirement of JCP&L President Don Lynch, effective June 3.

Hurricane Sandy cost the state's electric utilities hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency repair and restoration efforts, but as utilities seek to recover those costs — and ponder large-scale infrastructure upgrades — the largest energy users are raising red flags about the potential for runaway spending, as power providers seek...

While the state's research institutions figure out ways to use the bulk of the $750 million in Building Our Future bond funds authorized last fall, one private school is looking at the capital availability differently.

Cranbury-based biotechnology company VaxInnate Corp. has received a $2.2 million grant from the federal government to develop a vaccine to prevent dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease that kills about 25,000 people annually worldwide.