Bob Hennelly

New York City Comptroller John Liu gave the go-ahead on the next phase of the 911 call system overhaul now that the Bloomberg administration has reduced its projected cost.

The Japanese nuclear power catastrophe is bringing additional scrutiny to the industry in the tri-state area, which is perhaps more reliant on it than any other mutli-state region in the country.

The Ramapo Fault is the longest fault in the Northeast that occasionally makes local headlines when minor tremors cause rock the Tri-State region. It begins in Pennsylvania, crosses the Delaware River and continues through Hunterdon, Somerset, Morris, Passaic and Bergen counties before crossing the Hudson River near Indian Point nuclear facility.

The latest data on local property taxes out of Trenton from the Department of Community Affairs has both Democrats and Republicans blaming each other for the biggest annual property tax increase since 2007.

According to DCA's stats in 2010, the average residential property tax bill jumped by 4.1 percent. That means the average homeowner property tax bill was $7,576. Of course there is not a New Jersey town actually named "Average," so in hundreds of places the annual levy was much, much higher.

In the immediate aftermath of Japan's worst earthquake on record and the cataclysmic tsunami that followed, the business wires found a silver lining.

Now, they cheerfully chirped the Yen was showing surprising strength. Why? Because odds were improving that Japanese multinational companies would begin to repatriate tens of billions of ...

Even though the rain has stopped in New Jersey, flooding will be a significant issue for the next several days, especially along the Passaic River. The state's Climatologist at Rut...

After months of riding a national tidal wave of media attention for his battle with organized labor and waste in government spending, Christie now has to get down to the task at hand ...

New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie's mantra in every national interview is that he is not running for President in 2012. But that hasn't stopped Republicans from asking, or voters from noticing. In a recent Quinnipiac University poll, respondents ranked Christie number three, just below first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton (and one step above President Barack Obama) when asked to rate how they feel about public leaders. Christie is, in a word, a "hot" political commodity. But polls also showed Christie has issues with name recognition: 55 percent of respondents said they didn't know him well enough to make a decision.

In the aftermath of his arrest on corruption, former Middlesex County Sheriff Joseph Spicuzzo was asked by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to resign from the board of the state's Sports and Exposition Authority on Tuesday. An attorney for the embattled sheriff told The Star Ledger he has resigned from the post.

Former Middlesex Sheriff Joseph Spicuzzo resigned as chairman from the Middlesex County Democratic Party hours after being arrested and charged with taking bribes and official misconduct.

Ringwood Manor, and the woods and streams around it, play a central role in American history. Last week, while nobody was looking, thieves looted the state park, netting two landscape paintings and historic artifacts.

A day after President Barack Obama asked Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi to step down, a longtime congressional critic of the Libyan leader is urging the United States not to take ...

According to the New Jersey Department of Health comparison, New Jersey's immigrants are healthier on average than their native-born neighbors. This analysis comes as the Census shows...

Iron workers neared completion of the Borough of Manhattan Community College's Fiterman Hall's 15 story steel frame in Lower Manhattan this week.

With time running out in New Jersey, the state's redistricting panel can't agree on how to shape the state's 40 legislative  districts based on the 2010 census data. That impasse auto...

A controversial bill supported by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to regulate anti-abortion pregnancy centers passed the City Council on Wednesday. Critics of the bill claim it is unconstitutional. 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, unlike Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and other electeds, has stood up for public worker unions and has supports collective bargining as critical to getting labor's buy-in to the changes management may need to make.

American multi-national companies continue to hoard as much as a trillion dollars off-shore from profits they attribute to their foreign subsidiaries overseas. Back in December, the O...

More than 4,000 New Jersey public workers cheerfully sang "Solidarity Forever" despite a driving cold rain on Friday.

AFL-CIO National President Richard Trumka linked the current battle in Wisconsin over collective bargaining rights with what he said was Governor Chris Christie's combative approach to dealing with  New Jersey public employees.

"It's time to shake things up a little bit," bellowed Trumka. "You let them know that an attack against teachers or firefighters or nurses is an attack against all workers in New Jersey."

Nearly a thousand public workers and their unions massed at lunch time in front of City Hall on Thursday in solidarity with public employees in Wisconsin and other states that fa...