Kyle Glazier

A U.S. Court of Appeals bankruptcy panel will hear arguments Thursday from Stockton, Calif. and creditor holdout Franklin Templeton Investments, which is appealing confirmation of the city's plan of adjustment.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation says it needs an additional $62 million per year to maintain its roads and bridges, even as a recent report concludes that the state faces a sharp drop in revenue due to a weak oil and gas market.

The Oregon Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the legality of a bond-financed hotel near the Oregon Convention Center, a project that has been tied up in legal difficulty for years.

Employment in Oregon's film industry has grown 75% in five years, Gov. Kate Brown said as supporters say the industry brings economic benefits despite significant tax concessions.

Standard & Poor's downgraded the underlying rating of Snohomish County School District No. 15 in Edmonds, Wash. to AA-minus from AA

San Francisco mayor Ed Lee is touting the Board of Supervisors' approval of a downtown affordable housing project that will provide homes for lower-income residents while also helping to pay for local infrastructure.

With construction on its new basketball arena humming along, California's capitol is turning is attention to an extensive downtown revitalization project that aims to leverage property taxes to create 10,000 places to live in downtown Sacramento by 2025.

Standard & Poor's raised its long-term rating to A-plus from A on the Ukiah Redevelopment Agency, Calif.'s series 2011A tax allocation bonds, citing increased assessed value.

The Alaska legislature has passed legislation appropriating almost $150 million for a gas pipeline project that Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has said will be key to closing the state's $3.5 billion budget deficit gap.

The relatively opaque private placement market, which has been very strong in California, may be slowing down and shifting from a bank-dominated market to a more diverse range of purchasers.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker announced Monday that he has accepted financial support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Public Assistance Program to address damage caused by an August storm in the North Slope Borough.

Greenhouse gas regulations could cause declines in Wyoming's employment and revenues due to lowered demand for the coal the state produces, a University of Wyoming professor said recently.

Oregon will sell $54.3 million of general obligation bonds for veterans’ housing in a negotiated deal next week.

California’s Richmond Community Foundation will pursue a new social impact bond vehicle with a $3 million revenue bond private placement it hopes to close next month with the local Mechanics Bank.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Oregon's general obligation bond rating at AA-plus.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker said he will not introduce a bill to impose a property tax on natural gas leases in major reserve areas after receiving written assurances from two industry giants that they will make available their share of Alaska’s North Slope gas to a future gas pipeline project.

Rating agencies are continuing to treat municipal issuers unfairly even though federal law required that practice to stop, former California Treasurer Bill Lockyer said.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker Announced this week that he is allowing the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to spend up to $3.6 million, which had already been appropriated, to continue early work on a proposed bond-financed road project.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma have merged their marine cargo operations in an effort to better compete with other Pacific ports while keeping their bond portfolios independent.

The Marin Healthcare District of Marin County, Calif, plans to sell $170 million of investment-grade bonds next week to finance earthquake readiness measures and medical improvements at a 63 year-old hospital.