New Jersey

It's time to cut the paperwork and expedite the planned Gateway Tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan, argues a critic of the permitting process.

New Jersey is facing a possible $1.1 billion revenue shortfall for the current and next fiscal year following weaker than expected income tax collections in April, according to the state Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would rather Atlantic City file for bankruptcy than send more money to the gambling hub, and will let the city file if lawmakers don’t approve the rescue bill he supports.

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, said Wednesday state intervention is the only solution to solve Atlantic City’s fiscal crisis as a result of the city’s failure to confront its financial mismanagement.

Atlantic City, N.J., averted default Monday by making a $1.8 million debt service payment, but it’s far from certain the struggling city can make other such payments this year.

The developer of New Jersey’s long-stalled American Dream project in the Meadowlands may turn to tax-exempt bonds from an out-of-state conduit issuer for the shopping and entertainment complex.

Glenn Straub, owner of Atlantic City’s shuttered Revel Casino Hotel, is planning a new ropes course in the 47-story resort.

A new bill proposed in the New Jersey State Senate would allow financially distressed Atlantic City and other coastal municipalities to end costly lifeguard pensions.

New Jersey Transit is back to the drawing board looking for someone to lead the nation's third-busiest public transportation system after former Amtrak chief operating officer William Crosbie opted not to take the executive director post just days before his scheduled start date.

Political jockeying over funding for the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund is putting capital projects throughout the Garden State in danger.

A judge ruled Tuesday that Atlantic City is in compliance with payments owed to its school district and now the gambling hub is fighting back against New Jersey in a counter lawsuit.

Atlantic City averted a shutdown of its schools with a $4.25 million payment made Thursday.

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, floated an alternative proposal aimed at saving Atlantic City from insolvency that sets additional benchmarks for the distressed gambling hub before his previously-proposed state intervention would take effect.

With New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pushing for a state takeover of Atlantic City, members of the Republican governor’s administration were grilled by lawmakers Monday for allowing the gambling resort to plunge into distress.

New Jersey voters will decide the fate of a plan to expand New Jersey casino gambling beyond Atlantic City on Nov. 8.

New Jersey Transit has named former Amtrak chief operating officer William Crosbie as the agency’s new executive director.

New Jersey's apparent willingness to let Atlantic City default may hurt the credit of other municipalities because it calls into question the state's future willingness to support distressed local governments, according to Moody's Investors Service.

With Atlantic City inching closer to insolvency, the gambling hub took another hit Tuesday with a judge ruling that the Borgata Casino Hotel & Spa can seek refunds for its 2011 through 2014 property tax bills.

New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against Atlantic City seeking to recover more than $30 million the municipality owes its school district, Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday.

Atlantic City’s credit crating was slashed two notches to Caa3 by Moody’s Investors Service Monday as default concerns persist over the gambling hub.