Kyle Glazier

San Francisco-based Dignity Health had its outlook revised to negative from stable by Standard & Poor's, which cited a decline in financial performance.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has announced it signed a $175 million deal to purchase islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a controversial decision that some opponents view as part of a water grab.

The Associated Press and Municipal Bond Information Services, a national consortium of municipal interdealer brokers, announced Monday that it has created a new muni bond index.

Bond trustees are proving to have less power than some investors expect as debt distress has become a more persistent concern for municipal bond investors.

Alaska municipalities may bear the brunt of the state’s oil-driven budget crisis.

Berkeley Unified School District, Calif. will sell $18 million of general obligation bonds next week, buoyed by a Fitch Ratings AAA.

Washington's legislature adjourned after passing modest adjustments to the state's previous two-year budget while taking money from an account used to help fund municipal finance deals.

Some investors holding millions of dollars of bonds in default in the Florida panhandle are upset by what they see as inaction by trustee Bank of Oklahoma Financial and a fired employee with links to accused fraudster Christopher Brogdon.

Leaders of the Public Finance Authority take issue with criticisms that the Wisconsin-based national conduit issuer only exists to usurp local control from taxpayers and other bond-issuing authorities.

The West Contra Costa Unified School District’s settlement of a lawsuit over parcel tax revenues is a potential credit hit for parcel tax levying school districts in California and a boost for charter school credits, Moody’s Investors Service said.

The best execution rule, which took effect this week, may solidify a market shift concentrating retail customers in a few large firms, while others seek just to keep their institutional business running smoothly, market participants said.

The volatile stock market has hurt the asset performance of large pension plans, a signal that fiscal year 2016 returns may fall short of assumed targets for the second consecutive year, Moody's Investors Service said in a report.

Californians are gearing up for election season in what may prove to be “the year of the initiative,” with two explicitly bond-related questions already qualified for the November ballot and several more of interest to public finance likely to follow.

Washington electric utility Energy Northwest will sell nearly $500 million of refunding bonds later this month.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., a publicly-traded company that operates an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, announced Thursday that it will expand its trading system in April to include the municipal market.

Richard Kolman, a municipal finance veteran who most recently built U.S. Bank's muni underwriting group from scratch, is taking some time off from the industry.

Land-secured municipal bond defaults have plunged thanks to shifts in market practices and macroeconomic trends since the Great Recession.

The first bill Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed this session may be a big step for the state toward complying with a court order that has been hanging over its finances for years.

Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Alaska to Aa1 from Aaa.

Fitch Ratings has placed Alaska on a negative watch that the agency says should be resolved when the state passes a budget.