Keeley Webster has covered the Bond Buyer's nine-state West Coast region for more than a decade. Prior to The Bond Buyer, she wrote about commercial real estate for the award-winning California Real Estate Journal until the paper folded. She moved into business reporting in 2000, but has covered politics, cops, courts, education and environmental issues for newspapers in seven different states. She has won several awards for her work, including an Associated Press award for in-depth reporting.
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The acquisition of Cancer Treatment Centers of America in February was cited for the downgrade along with City of Hope's financial weakness over the past two years.
June 17 -
More big cuts will be needed to keep supplies from reaching perilously low levels, the Bureau of Reclamation's leader told a Senate committee this week.
June 16 -
Fitch Ratings revised the outlook on Sacramento City Unified School District's BBB-plus issuer default rating to stable from negative.
June 7 -
The mayor has not been formally charged, but has been named in an investigation alleging corruption around the proposed sale of Angel Stadium.
May 24 -
Several states have passed, or are considering, legislation to bar local governments from making payments to criminals who hold computer systems hostage.
May 20 -
The Port of Oakland cited supply disruptions in China for an April traffic decline, though Long Beach and Los Angeles posted gains.
May 20 -
Coordinated national efforts to share firefighters and other resources could be stretched thin this year as drought hammers the West.
May 17 -
Gov. Gavin Newsom's focus on voluntary water conservation has not brought much in the way of water conservation — consumption grew 19% year-over-year.
May 12 -
A national high-speed rail coalition penned a letter to the state's Democratic leaders saying allocating bond funds for the state's high-speed rail project would encourage federal support.
May 6 -
A spending limit formula voters set in 1979, combined with surpluses in the tens of billions of dollars, put California lawmakers in a quandary.
May 5
