Keeley Webster

Fresno, California, received a boost to positive from stable on its senior lien airport revenue bonds.

The California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission explored public finance solutions to child sexual abuse claims this week at an event in San Diego.

The federal budget bill lowered the percentage of private-activity bonds needed for affordable housing projects to qualify for 4% tax credits, but it hasn't been the boon expected.

Muni experts discussed how macroeconomic concerns and a volatile political environment are affecting the market as the market chalks up another record year of issuance.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will sell $977.6 million of water revenue bonds as it grapples with the impacts of January's devastating wildfire.

California's largest health workers union sent ballot language to state Attorney General Rob Bonta in an effort to add a wealth tax proposal to the November 2026 ballot.

The northern California school district has been struggling for years and on several occasions abandoned plans to consolidate schools, which rating agencies say might have shored up finances.

This will be Charvel's second stint as the city's CFO.

By delaying the bill signing, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek shortens time opponents have to gather signatures for a measure to overturn the transportation bill.

The bill was a response to a charter school fraud that took the state for $400 million, but Gov. Gavin Newsom said the proposed reforms were too expensive.

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association appealed to California's high court in a case challenging San Jose's plans to issue pension obligation bonds.

A state appeals court found that a simple majority approval by voters was sufficient on a 2020 hotel bed tax measure that reached the ballot via initiative.

Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland will face economic costs from the Trump administration's showy deployments of National Guard troops and immigration agents.

Fitch revised its outlook on the AAA-rated southern California to negative. The city is grappling with child sexual abuse claims from hundreds of people against one former employee.

The county will tap reserves and eliminate vacant positions to meet budget challenges driven by billions of dollars of child sexual abuse settlements.

Los Angeles County supervisors asked staff to draft restructuring alternatives for the county's Office of Emergency Management.

Andrew Nakahata officially takes the helm of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank on Wednesday.

It affirmed the California city's Aaa issuer rating, but cited the drag on revenues from tepid tourism numbers and liabilities from child sexual abuse claims.

If Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the two bills, it would be credit positive for San Francisco area transit, Moody's Ratings analysts said.

A bill to provide state credit support for housing finance and another to create an infrastructure bank were placed in the legislature's suspense file.