Nellie Pou

A Senate committee Thursday advanced a package of consumer-protection proposals, including restrictions on tax refund anticipation checks that critics call exploitative of people with low incomes.

The so-called 'cleanup' bill is due for votes Tuesday and Thursday in the Legislature, though some key details were still being finalized.

Activists and sympathetic lawmakers have long expected the Legislature to vote on driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants now that the election is over.

There's no such thing as a stupid question? A state Board of Education member might put the lie to that old classroom saw.

A bill signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy at the end of January prohibits website operators from offering tickets using an Internet domain name that's intentionally misleading or deceptive to consumers.

Brianna made news when she bolted on Route 80. Now she could make a new law.

Sponsors of the bill are confident that Gov. Phil Murphy will sign the bill and make it the nation's first ban on teenage marriage.

Keeping New Jersey kids in high school until they graduate is the goal for two Democratic state senators.

New Jersey is reforming its juvenile justice system, courtesy of a new law recently signed by Gov. Chris Christie.