Raj Mukherji

To further reduce crowding in prisons to make social distancing possible, the Legislature may vote to release thousands of inmates eight months early.

Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a measure into law that allows unauthorized immigrants in New Jersey to get a professional or occupational license.

With changes scaling back its scope and adding notification measures, a plan to grant early prison releases to thousands of state inmates was endorsed by a legislative committee Monday.

New Jersey’s population has changed significantly since 2010, but a delay in the census has state lawmakers pushing to run one more election on the decade-old legislative map.

A woman in Gloucester Township, with the help of her husband, recently gave birth in a bathtub at home because she feared she'd be separated from her husband during childbirth at a hospital.

A proposal to create a second type of New Jersey driver’s licenses that would be made available to immigrants not legally in the United States was endorsed Thursday by two legislative committees.

A new bill introduced in New Jersey would expand the pool of eligible veterans for in-state tuition rates in order for them to achieve higher education.

Pay a thousand dollars because you forgot about a parking ticket? It sounds crazy but it can and does happen in New Jersey.

On Monday, the New Jersey Assembly Homeland Security Committee approved legislation that would permit immigrants who are not in the United States legally to obtain New Jersey driver's licenses, but Gov. Chris Christie made it crystal clear he would never sign the measure.

In 2003, New Jersey set aside $30 million from its cigarette tax for smoking cessation programs, but then began dialing back the funding until completely eliminating it in the Fiscal Year 2012 State Budget. There is now a plan to get the programs up and running again with even more funding without a…