(Courtney Baynes/NJ Spotlight News)Ras Baraka was denied access to an immigrant detention facility in Newark
(Courtney Baynes/NJ Spotlight News)Ras Baraka was denied access to an immigrant detention facility in Newark

Start date moved from May 6 to May 13
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Gov. Phil Muphy leads calls for the senator to resign

As news comes of Uvalde shooting, Democratic candidates in 8th District discuss gun issue
FileLocal and state Democratic leaders have endorsed Menendez to take over from Sires

The activists are also looking to put pressure on federal lawmakers to approve $600 million for election security funding at the state level.

New reforms governing who makes bail could keep people awaiting trial out of jail. But could they also cause chaos in the courts? The new ...

New Jerseyans have a lot to keep their eyes on politically in the coming years.

Camden is one of just five cities to be awarded a $13 million Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grant from HUD.

A community plagued by guns and drugs presents its own proposal to take back the streets. Can neighbors fix what officials can't? Can revitalizing Camden's ...

The Gateway Program calls for doubling the number of tracks, building a new tunnel and rehabilitating the existing tunnel at a $20 billion estimate.

Closing the gender pay gap. A call to override the governor's veto of an equal pay bill he says would be bad for business. A ...

Democratic lawmakers gathered at the site of the old E.C. Electroplating factory in Garfield to celebrate the successful start to remediation of this superfund site ...

Assembly Democrats want to hike the gas tax to replenish for the Transportation Trust Fund. Republicans want to block the gas tax hike altogether. What's ...

Senator Robert Menendez discusses the U.S. reaction to the attacks on Paris and the possibility of a declaration of war.

Legalizing marijuana in the Garden State. Experts assert a pot crop could pump cash into state coffers. Even though no opponents were heard from, the ...

The federal budget has a provision that would allow the IRS to call seeking payments. Some say this would give scammers presumed legitimacy. The Treasury ...

Dueling arguments over fantasy sports betting. A game of skill or chance? If lawmakers decide it's gambling they could decide to regulate it. Public school ...

New Jersey’s disbursed about $660 million in federal money for reconstruction, rehabilitation, remediation and elevation of Sandy-damaged homes. The state says 8,000 homeowners remain in ...

Home at last. Three years after Sandy's savagery Belmar's last two displaced families are finally back in. Both U.S. senators outline efforts to ensure the ...