Plenty of oceanfront homeowners at the Jersey shore are unhappy with GOP Gov. Chris Christie’s plan to widen beaches and build protective sand dunes along the state’s entire 127-mile coastline. Among them is Lawrence Bathgate, one of the Republican Party’s …
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie drew applause by bashing the federal flood insurance program at a town hall in a community hit hard by Superstorm Sandy. The governor is also complaining about the federal bureaucracy that he says is delaying …
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has postponed a visit to Monmouth County where he planned to have his first town hall since scandal engulfed his administration. Tuesday’s meeting will be rescheduled to later this week because of the weather. Christie …
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie faces new allegations of exacting retribution for political reasons after a city’s mayor accused his administration of linking millions of dollars in recovery money for Superstorm Sandy to a politically connected project. Hoboken Mayor Dawn …
Gov. Chris Christie says he understands victims’ frustrations a year after Superstorm Sandy but maintains that his administration isn’t to blame for delays in aid reaching victims. In an interview with The Associated Press as the anniversary of the Oct. …
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says a low-level manager – not the state’s mass transit chief – was to blame for failing to move trains to higher ground during Superstorm Sandy, causing $120 million in damage. Christie told The Record …
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed an executive order to speed the construction of sand dunes to protect its coast from storms over the objections of beachfront homeowners worried about losing their ocean views. The order, which takes effect today, …
Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday the National Flood Insurance Program’s handling of claims in New Jersey has been “a disgrace,” complaining that the program has been far too slow to resolve claims from Superstorm Sandy, with 70 percent of cases …
Gov. Chris Christie is calling the House of Representative’s failure to act on a Superstorm Sandy relief package “inexcusable.” Christie issued a joint statement with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday lambasting Congress’ failure to approve the emergency aid …
Teen drivers in New Jersey won’t need more practice behind the wheel and their parents won’t have to take a course. Gov. Chris Christie refused to sign into law a bill that aimed to make younger drivers safer. The bill …