Offshore wind energy plans advance in New Jersey amid opposition
Two major offshore wind power projects are taking steps forward in New Jersey
September 14, 2023Two major offshore wind power projects are taking steps forward in New Jersey
September 14, 2023Labor officials in New Jersey have lifted a stop-work order that had temporarily shut down more than two dozen Boston Market restaurants in the state
September 15, 2023Rep. Andy Kim of New Jersey has announced that he will run against Sen. Robert Menendez in the state’s Democratic primary for Senate next year, saying he feels compelled to run against the three-term senator after he and his wife were indicted on sweeping corruption charges
September 23, 2023Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is rejecting calls to resign, saying that nearly half a million dollars in cash found in his home was from personal savings, not from bribes
September 25, 2023New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez remains defiant in the face of federal bribery charges, telling a room full of his Senate Democratic colleagues that he has no plans to resign
September 28, 2023A New York company plans to build an offshore wind energy project 42 miles off New Jersey
October 02, 2023A judge is planning a spring trial for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife
October 02, 2023Nadine Menendez, now the wife of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, killed a man with her car in December 2018 and left the scene without being charged
October 05, 2023The New Jersey attorney general’s office has opened an inquiry into how local law enforcement handled an investigation into a December 2018 car crash that involved Sen. Robert Menendez’s wife Nadine, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the situation
October 06, 2023After 12 years of planning and construction, the largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era is ready to open to the public in Robbinsville, New Jersey
October 07, 2023The Danish wind energy company Orsted has put up a $100 million guarantee that it will build New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm
October 12, 2023Sports betting and internet gambling were at near-record levels in New Jersey in September, and nearly half of the Atlantic City casinos won more money from in-person gamblers than they did before the COVID19 pandemic
October 16, 2023A decade after they were envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s destruction, two of the largest flood control projects designed to protect densely populated cities in New Jersey just outside New York City are getting underway
October 25, 2023A giant smokestack that was part of the landscape for millions of tourists heading to beaches on the southern New Jersey shore came down Thursday
October 26, 2023Danish energy developer Orsted is scrapping two large offshore wind power projects off the coast of New Jersey, adding uncertainty to a nascent industry the Biden administration is counting on to help transition away from the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels
October 31, 2023Wind energy developer Orsted is writing off $4 billion, due largely to the cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey whose financial challenges mirror those facing the nascent industry
November 01, 2023Every seat in the New Jersey Legislature is up for grabs in Tuesday’s general election
November 03, 2023Danish energy firm Orsted's shock decision to cancel two offshore wind farms off New Jersey this week was based in large part on big delays securing the ship it needed to
April 26, 2024The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, jeopardizing President Joe Biden's goal of powering 10 million homes by towering ocean-based turbines by the end of the decade
November 04, 2023Offshore wind power company Orsted is trying to get out of a $300 million guarantee it agreed to pay New Jersey in the event it failed to build its first wind farm off the state’s coast
November 06, 2023New Jersey gambling regulators say Atlantic City’s casinos and two internet-only entities earned $281 million in the third quarter of this year
November 21, 2023The American Dream Mall in New Jersey has reopened after briefly being evacuated while police investigated a bomb threat, state Governor Phil Murphy said in a post on the X social media
July 02, 2024In the 10 years that it has been operating in New Jersey, internet casino gambling has generated nearly $7 billion in revenue for casinos and their affiliates, sent over a billion dollars in tax revenue to the state’s coffers, and helped keep Atlantic City’s nine casinos afloat while they were shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic
November 24, 2023A bill that would end smoking in Atlantic City's casinos continues to go nowhere
November 30, 2023A new state comptroller report finds that a police training seminar in New Jersey included instructors making lewd comments about women, encouraging officers to pull people over for no reason and showing a photo of an ape after talking about pulling over a 75-year-old Black man
December 06, 2023