The legislation that will reorganize the state's higher education institutions will be limited to health sciences education, legislators announced today ahead of a vote on the measure.

After months of planning and efforts to gain public approval, the Hackensack City Council passed Wednesday a Main Street Rehabilitation Plan to spur economic development and infrastructure improvements along the city's 39-block Main Street corridor.

Around New Jersey, business reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act has been mixed, but most in the health care industry were immediately supportive of the ruling.

After serving as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in New Brunswick, for nearly three years, Paul D. Storiale has resigned from his role to pursue a career in education, a spokesman said.

Human resources contract, financial education acquisition, consulting resources.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning that President Barack Obama's health care reform law is constitutional, and upheld the entire act, 5-4, with certain limitations to the Medicaid expansion provisions.

Montclair State University's College of Education and Human Services has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the state to coordinate clinical research at the multisite New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence, according to the university.

When Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation in February to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey, accounting firm Marcum LLP saw a business opportunity, as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — or LGBT — and nontraditional family communities began to fully recognize...

While the onslaught of stormwater runoff from Hurricane Irene led to a spike in beach closings in New Jersey last year, inland destinations reaped revenues lost along the shore between August and September. That helped drive a 70 percent increase in tourism revenue, to $38 billion, according to an industry expert.
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Industrial acquisition, building materials change, pharma partnership.

While darkened big-box stores remain problematic for the state's retail real estate sector, absorptions in the central New Jersey market have triggered improvements in the vacancy rate and sparked new developments, according to an annual survey by Old Bridge-based retail real estate broker R.J. Brunelli & Co.