The Latest Breaking News from Phil Murphy

A New Jersey sewage treatment plant in a predonimantly minority neighborhood is pressing forward with its plan to build a gas-fired power plant, three months after the state’s governor halted the proposal to make sure it does not overly burden the already polluted community

Announcement comes three days after state regulators greenlight permits for seven facilities

The law banning New Jersey motorists from pumping their own gas is as deeply ingrained in the Garden State as reverence for Bruce Springsteen and summers at the Shore.

After missing a self-imposed deadline to open the state for legal marijuana sales, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) said the state is “within weeks” of having existing medical weed dispensaries sell recreational cannabis to adults 21 and older.

WASHINGTON — Several Democratic governors are moving to ease some indoor mask mandates, skipping ahead of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Biden administration, which continue to urge Americans to wear masks indoors regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status.

Rochelle Walensky says "now is not the moment" to stop forcing masks on children. Democratic politicians increasingly disagree.

On Feb. 7, two governors—Delaware’s John Carney (D) and New Jersey’s Phil Murphy (D)—issued separate announcements lifting their states’ school mask requirements for the remainder of the 2021-2022 school year. Local authorities will now have the power to issue school mask requirements in both states.

"We are not going to manage COVID to zero," New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will end a statewide mask mandate that was instituted to protect against COVID-19 in schools and child care centers