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Budget committee Democrats advance 2020 budget that spends slightly more than the governor had proposed and without the tax and fee hikes he proposed.

Finally freed from now-delayed legalization plan, a significant plan to expand New Jersey's medical marijuana program is moving quickly in the Legislature.

Despite fewer storms and a 45% drop in the amount of rock salt and brine spread, the NJDOT's winter weather costs rose slightly this past winter.

Acting Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks says it's difficult to keep up with attrition and that recruiting classes are getting smaller.

The Schools Development Authority has spent most of its $12.3 billion and is planning its next request for billions more for facilities construction.

Lawmakers expressed resistance at a budget hearing Wednesday to Gov. Phil Murphy’s plan to raise gun taxes and fees by just over $9 million.

Court filing fees are used to pay for pretrial services programs but don't bring in enough money to cover the costs. Its surplus will run out in about a year.

School aid changes made last year to help underfunded districts have a flip side: Some lose funding, and they turned out in force at the first budget hearing.

Would you trust the New Jersey Lottery if it told you a multi-million dollar game had been won – but that it wouldn’t tell you who’d won it?

New Jersey’s pension funds pay $219 million a year in accidental disability pensions to over 5,100 people. That includes 7 percent of all recipients in the Police & Firemen’s Retirement System.