Caitlin Devitt

Fitch Ratings said 2014 hospital medians showed surprisingly strong results, while capital spending in the sector hit the lowest point in six years.

The Wayne County Commission Thursday approved a consent agreement with Michigan that will mean a partial state takeover for the struggling county.

Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded more than three dozen Michigan school districts this year as falling enrollment continues to strain their finances.

Markham, Ill., faces a possible further downgrade of its junk-rated debt unless it releases updated financial information by Aug. 24, Standard & Poor's said Monday.

Wayne County's proposed consent agreement with the state requires the county to continue to make timely debt payments and enhances the government's power over collective bargaining.

Are a statutory lien and other state-crafted protections on Detroit's first post-bankruptcy bond sale enough for investors assessing the city's long-term recovery?

Standard & Poor's said it would wait to see the terms of Wayne County's consent agreement with the state before taking action on the junk-rated county.

The Wayne County, Mich., board opted to enter a consent agreement with the state government, one of the four choices it had to deal with the county's financial emergency.

Detroit is nearing its first public bond sale since bankruptcy as it posted bond documents for the deal on Thursday.

The Wayne County, Mich. board of commissioners is scheduled to vote Thursday on how to resolve its financial emergency.

Philadelphia-based Public Financial Management, the country's largest municipal advisory firm, said it has acquired Stauder, Barch & Associates, Michigan's oldest FA firm.

The latest top state court to weigh in on pension reforms ruled in Michigan last week that the state's pension reforms enacted in 2011 are constitutional, overturning two lower court decisions.

Moody’s Investors Service upgrade Dayton, Ohio-based Kettering Health, saying the eight-hospital system has seen a strong financial performance in the last two years.

Moody’s upgraded Detroit by one notch Thursday, though leaving it deep in junk territory, as the city gears up for its first post-bankruptcy bond deal.

Cincinnati’s settlement with its unions and retirees on retirement obligations is one of the reasons why Moody’s said it revised its outlook on the city to stable from negative.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Thursday affirmed his earlier declaration that Wayne County is in a financial emergency, giving the county board until next week to choose among four partial takeover options.

Michigan public finance veteran Dale Deis joins top-ranked PFM after nearly 30 years at Municipal Financial Consultants in Michigan.

Standard & Poor’s assigned an A rating and stable outlook to Detroit’s first post-bankruptcy bond sale, set for Aug. 19.

Detroit is set to hit the market on August 19 with its first public bond sale since exiting the largest municipal bankruptcy in the U.S.

Cook County, Ill.'s president won't support Gov. Bruce Rauner's pension reforms even though they give the cash-strapped county many of the reforms it wants, because it would also mean supporting the governor's anti-union measures.