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New Jersey Gov. Corzine predicts the national economy will get worse before it gets better, and he says he's positioning the Garden State to absorb the blows.

With the registration deadline only a day away, New Jersey election officials say they're struggling to keep up with a record tide of new voter registrations.

TRENTON, N.J. -- In rural Hope Township in northwest New Jersey, there are stories about how state troopers would patrol on horseback and spend the night at farmhouses back in the 1920s.

"Throw the bums out! They're all a bunch of crooks, anyway!" That's the kind of barroom talk and dinner table discussion we imagine taking place when it comes to conversation about New Jersey politicians.

Walter Zjawin is trying to help John McCain do what no Republican has done in 20 years: win a presidential general election in New Jersey.

TRENTON -- Both sides in New Jersey's debate over gay marriage predicted Friday that Connecticut's decision to allow gays and lesbians to marry would hop-scotch across the tri-state area and have an impact ...

TRENTON -- A new property tax cap aimed at protecting New Jersey property owners from ballooning municipal property taxes hasn't stopped towns from requesting -- and getting -- waivers from a state board to ...

These are tough times for America. A bad economy is worsening, the financial news from around the globe is bleak.

Assembly Democrats today said ominous signs regarding winter fuel bills, looming cold weather and the global economic crisis simply re-emphasize the need to help low-income seniors and disabled persons pay gas ...

LAKEWOOD -- A man's body has been discovered inside a parked car that was burning behind a used-car dealership in Central New Jersey.

Thousands of New Jerseyans will lose out on their federal economic stimulus rebate checks if they don't apply by Oct.

Most Waters Unfit for Direct Human Contact; Statewide Fish Health Advisories Trenton - More than one thousand water bodies across New Jersey are too polluted for fishing or swimming and are supposed to be ...

TRENTON -- State government should craft new protections for seniors against financial-service rascals at a time when more New Jerseyans are aging and markets are wobbly, state Attorney General Anne Milgram ...

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, right, addresses a group Monday at the Piers Shops at Caesar's in Atlantic City, about the offshore wind power project.

The annual New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge will be held on the weekend of Oct. 18-19. The event is designed to promote the importance of the state's lighthouses in the protection of shipping along the ...

Gov. Corzine, champion of toll payers? The guy who wanted to raise tolls by 800 percent now demands the New Jersey Turnpike Authority scale back its new rate hike proposal that called for tolls on the Garden ...

With two neighboring states having recently approved massive offshore wind farm projects, the Corzine administration is considering expanding New Jersey's future reliance on wind power as a clean source of ...

Due to New Jersey's meager population over the past decade, the upcoming 2010 census could not only show that the state is lagging behind national demographic trends but could result in the state losing one its ...

State Sen. Leonard Lance, R-Clinton Township, holds a small lead over Assemblywoman Linda Stender, D-Fanwood, in a tight race for a 7th District U.S. House seat, according to a new Monmouth University/Gannett ...

State regulators on Friday gave their nod to a developer that would build a wind farm 16 to 20 miles off the coast of South Jersey.