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PennEast drops New Jersey gas pipeline project

September 27, 2021 10:59 amSeptember 27, 2021 3:22 pm

PennEast Pipeline Co. has pulled the plug on a controversial plan to build a $1 billion, 116-mile natural gas pipeline was opposed by both Gov. Phil Murphy and his Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli. The decision to stop work on the...

Further Ida disaster declarations growing unlikely, Murphy and Callahan say

September 22, 2021 3:38 pm

Warren County was added on Saturday to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s list of counties covered under an Ida-related emergency management declaration – but according to Gov. Phil Murphy and New Jersey State Police Acting Superintendent Col. Pat Callahan, it’s...

Jiampetti defends herself in Egg Harbor City water case as Republicans attack

September 22, 2021 9:34 amSeptember 22, 2021 3:52 pm

Egg Harbor City Mayor Lisa Jiampetti, the current Democratic nominee for Atlantic County Clerk, is defending herself and her city after the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) raised concerns over the city’s sale of its water systems through the...

Teaneck renewable energy referendum ordered onto the ballot

September 13, 2021 4:30 pmSeptember 13, 2021 4:48 pm

Superior Court Judge Robert C. Wilson has ordered that a referendum establishing a renewable energy credit system be placed on the November ballot, marking the second court loss for Acting Township Clerk Doug Ruccione today. In August, Ruccione rejected the...

FEMA issues major disaster declarations for Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Union Counties

September 10, 2021 1:37 pmSeptember 10, 2021 3:07 pm

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued Ida-related major disaster declarations in four more counties – Essex, Hudson, Mercer, and Union – bringing the total number of New Jersey counties included up to 10. “We just received a [FEMA]...

Bob Hollenbeck, former six-term assemblyman, dies at 89

September 9, 2021 2:07 pmSeptember 10, 2021 12:05 am

Robert P. Hollenbeck, a genial South Bergen Democrat who served six terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming a casualty of Gov. Tom Kean’s coattails in 1985, died on September 5. He was...