New Jersey voters easily approved a ballot question forcing judges and state Supreme Court justices to pay more for retirement and health benefits.

Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook on New Jersey from stable to negative, based on the state's continuing budget imbalance and pension costs.

A contentious bill raising pension and health benefits costs for more than a half-million New Jersey government workers goes back to the state Senate one more time on Monday for a formality vote.

The New Jersey Assembly passed landmark legislation Thursday that requires public employees to pay more for pension and health benefits.

The debate over public employee pension and health benefits legislation wound up taking so much time that the New Jersey Legislature is under the gun to approve a state budget in nine days.

New Jersey legislation requiring public workers to shoulder a larger portion of their pension and health benefits costs and restricting collective bargaining over health care picked up steam this week.

A war of words has erupted in New Jersey over a proposal to require public workers to pay more for health benefits.

New Jersey's governor and Senate president reached a deal Wednesday that would make public employees pay more for pension and health benefits, but Assembly Democrats refused to go along.