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Byline: MATT FRIEDMAN and STEVE STRUNSKY, STATE HOUSE BUREAU With Democrats poised to introduced gay marriage legislation as the first bill of the upcoming legislative session, advocates say the chances [...]

Byline: STEVE STRUNSKY and CHRIS MEGERIAN, STATE HOUSE BUREAU In his rookie year in office, Governor Christie has treated the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as if [...]

WHEN Jerramiah T. Healy was elected as mayor here, this former railroad town had been transformed into an extension of Lower Manhattan's financial district, with skyscrapers along the waterfront housing […]

Authorities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are investigating letters sent to communities in both states threatening an attack like the one that killed five girls at an Amish schoolhouse last […]

It was, legally, a kind of stay of execution, though practically it might be more like a grant of executive clemency. In a letter dated Oct. 30, Gov. Jon S. […]

IF this had been your captain speaking, he might have said it was a beautiful fall day at Teterboro Airport, the temperature a pleasant 60 degrees and not a cloud […]

Legislative ethics may strike some people as an oxymoron, but there is a Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards charged with policing state senators and assembly members. Since its creation […]

AFTER the concave facade of fake brushed aluminum, perhaps the most striking physical feature of the new South Orange Performing Arts Center is that the stage is nearly as big […]

New Jersey has a statewide system for monitoring paroled child sex offenders under Megan's Law, requiring them to register with local authorities, who in turn alert neighbors and others to […]

Wider, more comfortable seats. A full inch of extra leg room to let you stretch out on those trips between New York and Trenton. An internal and external intercom system. […]

ABOUT a half-mile on the Hasenclever Iron Trail, an old mining road in Ringwood State Park, there's a sign nailed to a tree by the State Division of Parks and […]

There have been 34 school shootings in the United States in the last 10 years, resulting in the deaths of 54 students and 14 teachers, administrators and others, according to […]

Al Guenther, a tattoo artist in Little Egg Harbor, is not planning to stick around to learn what effect the new 7 percent sales tax will have on his business. […]

It took all of four minutes to drive in, order and drive out of the Burger King on Market Street in Saddle Brook, juggling a Triple Whopper with cheese, medium [...]

THE borough may need some extra help, but at least it's not a laughingstock. After some residents warned that cash-strapped Ringwood would be ridiculed by late-night television hosts if the […]

Government and team officials are scheduled to break ground Tuesday in Harrison, N.J., on a 25,000-seat stadium for Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls, as the MetroStars were renamed […]

How does a residential community deal with an unruly house where renters run wild and the landlord doesn't seem to care? In North Caldwell, the police have been summoned to […]

SEAN O'CASEY'S one-act play 'The Cooing of Doves,' typed and marked up by the playwright, lay on a reading table at Princeton University's Firestone Library. Neither yellowed by history's aura […]

New Jersey's diversity is nowhere more apparent than in median household income, where Hunterdon County ranked first in the nation among small counties and Camden ranked last among small cities, […]

IN the 1940's, with Depression and world war having humbled many of the families occupying the large houses in this Essex County suburb, township officials rezoned lots occupied by single-family […]

IT was a glorious Saturday in July, and any sailors worth their salt were out racing. Dozens of sailboats glided across the blue water of Barnegat Bay: little Sunfish, elegant […]

Packed into the red-and-white stands on a rainy Saturday night, children munched on chili dogs and teenage girls paraded in skin-tight Wrangler jeans. Parents draped clear plastic covers over baby […]

GREENWOOD LAKE, a five-mile finger of water straddling the border of Passaic County, N.J., and Orange County, N.Y., was once the heart of a fashionable summer retreat where Babe Ruth […]

Princeton University said it had accepted 10.2 percent of the 17,563 applicants for its Class of 2010, turning down thousands. Now, Princeton itself is feeling the sting of rejection. In […]

CLIPBOARD in hand, Mike Thompson climbed the stoop of a well-kept, two-story home here and rang the bell. Ethel Corsale, a 79-year-old widow, answered and listened as Mr. Thompson, a […]

JACK GORDON stood with a long line of commuters, framed against the shiny red tiles of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, waiting to board DeCamp Bus Lines' No. […]

DESPITE its 150-year history, 11,000 students and sprawling hilltop campus, William Paterson University is all but anonymous to much of its home state's general population. But among the jazz cognoscenti, [...]

LIKE limbs pared from an ailing tree, the trolley branches are long gone, and what is left of this city's 71-year-old subway system is a 4.3-mile main line that runs […]

STEVE AND MEGAN TRASK had spent a recent morning at Liberty State Park and were returning to their car in a lot along Freedom Way when they paused near a […]

IF you are rich enough, or connected enough, or even just good enough to eventually tee off on the second hole at Liberty National Golf Club, you will have the […]

GOV. ED RENDELL of Pennsylvania not only campaigned for Jon S. Corzine last year, but he is also a constituent. So picking a fight with his newly elected counterpart across […]

THERE'S a battle being waged in this historic county seat, where Washington slept and Alfred Vail burned the midnight oil perfecting the telegraph. The battleground is a six-acre estate linked […]

ED McDONALD, a low roller at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, was waiting for a jitney when he paused to gawk at what may turn out to be yet […]

WITH his team trying to hold on to the lead in a game that could put the New York Giants in sole possession of first place, Jay Swoope suddenly got […]

ON a blustery fall day, Donald Trump stood in a parking lot just blocks from the waterfront, his famous comb-over fluttering in the breeze that blows off New York Harbor. […]

JERSEY CITY - Sixty years after the 10th Armored Division helped defend the Belgian city of Bastogne, Louis Cerruti is still fighting for more recognition of his unit's pivotal role [...]

NEWARK - A former nurse who claims to have killed more than 40 patients at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering a Jersey City judge [...]

NEWARK - Marshaling hip-hop's influence on young listeners, a city official and youth activist joined celebrities of the rap and mainstream entertainment worlds Wednesday in announcing a nationwide initiative to [...]

NEWARK - A former nurse who claims to have killed more than 40 patients at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is expected to plead guilty Thursday in the 1988 [...]

Like something out of a Disney film, the story of Paco the python is a serpentine tale of a pet snake missing in Missouri for more than a month until [...]

BAYONNE - Researchers are making progress in developing 'smart gun' technology, but it will still be at least five years before a New Jersey law requiring it can take effect, [...]

NEWARK - As many as 1,000 geese, ducks and gulls may have perished in the Delaware River after a Greek-owned tanker leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil, the state Department [...]

NEWARK - Two potential rivals in next year's Democratic gubernatorial primary, acting Governor Codey and U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine, ladled soup and spooned potatoes for some of their neediest [...]

NEWARK - The state and Atlantic County have agreed to pay $2.46 million for the development rights to a 1,448-acre tract in Atlantic County that includes the state's largest blueberry [...]

JERSEY CITY - Councilman Jerramiah Healy was declared mayor of the state's second-largest city Friday, 10 days after a special election that drew 11 candidates. Healy led the field in [...]

JERSEY CITY - Jerramiah Healy was leading in a special election for mayor of Jersey City on Wednesday, but election officials said about 10 percent of the vote could not [...]

JERSEY CITY - Residents were to choose a new mayor in a special election Tuesday to fill the unexpired term of Glenn D. Cunningham, the city's first black mayor, who [...]

JERSEY CITY - City Councilman Jerramiah Healy declared victory Tuesday night in the race for mayor, but county elections officials left for the evening without announcing an official winner. Healy [...]

JERSEY CITY - From the photo seeming to show one candidate passed out naked on his front stoop, to the convicted felon advising another candidate's campaign, the special election for [...]