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Gov. Chris Christie's high approval rating in Tuesday's Monmouth University-Asbury Park Press poll is no surprise, but this is: For the first time ever in the survey, property taxes are not at least tied for the number-one concern of New Jersey residents.

A New Jersey Assembly Transportation Committee hearing did not determine if unannounced lane closures near the George Washington Bridge were payback for Fort Lee's mayor failing to endorse Gov. Chris Christie, but it did raise new questions for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

A popular mass transit tax break, which saves the typical New Jersey commuter hundreds of dollars a year, will be cut in half at the beginning of the New Year, unless Congress acts quickly to renew it.

More and more people are paying bills and doing banking online these days because it's very convenient, but it can also be dangerous if you're not careful because your personal and financial information is out there in a scammers playground.

If your testimony as a witness helped put a violent bad guy behind bars, wouldn't you want to know when he's released from prison?

More than two years after a deadline for Gov. Chris Christie and New Jersey's Board of Public Utilities to implement an offshore wind program signed into law in 2010, the initiative still has not begun.

A new bill making cyber-harassment a crime in New Jersey has been unanimously approved by the State Senate Budget Committee.

About 75,000 people have signed up for online gambling in the first week and a half after its launch in New Jersey, but at least 200,000 others may have been turned away for various reasons.

Momentum is building in Trenton against a proposal to build a Liquified Natural Gas terminal off the New Jersey Coast. The New Jersey Senate Environment and Energy Committee passed a resolution Thursday opposing Port Ambrose.

Saying the government should lead by example, President Barack Obama is ordering the federal government to nearly triple its use of renewable sources for electricity by 2020.