When the state's in financial stress, state institutions get squeezed. It's happening in higher ed where costs are already soaring. Counting the homeless. Fewer are ...

New Jersey has three of the five U.S. cities with the highest percentage of underwater mortgages: Newark, Elizabeth and Paterson.

Merging transit bureaucracies: less cost. More red tape? Tracking campaign donations. New campus sexual assault protocols. Halloween stores pop up. And the monarch population drops ...

Some residents have had bad experiences with mortgage companies when they run into financial trouble and are facing foreclosure.