Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced a directive instructing law enforcement agencies to no longer, in most instances, subject individuals encountered with municipal court bench warrants with bail amounts of $500 or less to custodial arrest. ...
Entering our third pandemic summer, it’s easy to get frustrated with the vaccines. They aren’t as effective against variants and subvariants that keep taunting us. They aren’t preventing ongoing transmission of infection — and reinfection. They didn’t restore our...
New Jersey needed seven years to make up deep revenue losses sustained during the Great Recession, when everything from school aid to public-worker pension funding was slashed to keep the budget in balance. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, which also brought on an...
For the first time, state environmental regulators would be required when making permitting decisions to consider the cumulative impact of new facilities such as power plants on pollution levels in already overburdened communities. That requirement is spelled out in a...
The Atlantic County Utilities Authority will hold a Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at its Environmental Park at 6700 Delilah Road. Accepted items include insecticides, fertilizer, paint thinners, furniture polish, weed killers,...
