Jim Watts

Blast-damaged West, Texas, and its school district had their credit lowered Wednesday by Moody's Investors Service.

Glendale, Ariz., officials are negotiating a new lease agreement aimed at keeping the Phoenix Coyotes playing hockey at Jobing.com Arena.

El Paso, Texas, will build a downtown ballpark with $60.8 million of 30-year revenue bonds.

Louisiana will issue $251.6 million of bonds for community college project under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Louisiana Energy and Power Authority will ask the State Bond Commission on Thursday for permission to issue $150 million of power system revenue bonds.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said there is not enough time left in the Legislature's special session to deal with college tuition revenue bonds.

Collections from Oklahoma's personal and corporate income taxes were up significantly in May from last year's totals.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed income tax cut bills that will lower the tax rate over the next five years.

Little Rock's new 1% sales tax generated $46.4 million in its first full year of collections.

Seven-mayor panel in Arkansas awards $13.1 million in state street funds from $28 million requested.

Trustees of the Scottsdale school district has asked Legislature to restore funding to public education that has been dwindling since 2008.

Louisiana's new Office of Debt Recovery is expected to bring in up to $200 million in the next five years from delinquent accounts.

Local governments in the central Texas town of West do not qualify for a 75% federal reimbursement for damages from the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15.

Little Rock, Ark., will fund street and drainage improvements with $58.4 million of general obligation bonds supported a 15-year property tax extension approved last year by voters

Two reform bills included in a budget compromise would tighten Louisiana's state budgeting process.

Louisiana Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp. approved a controversial refinancing of $720 million of tobacco settlement revenue bonds.

A budget battle in Washington may hinder Kansas's efforts to issue $307 million of bonds for a national bio-defense laboratory.

Higher-than-expected collections from Arkansas's state income and sales taxes in May mean the budget is fully funded with another month left in the year.

Testimony by former Treasurer Martha Shoffner is under review by lawmakers for possibly perjury following her indictment on 14 federal charges.

Louisiana lawmakers avoided a special session with a near-unanimous approval of a $25.4 billion budget for fiscal 2014.