Kyle Glazier

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.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Oct. 16 that the federal government will assist parts of the state that suffered significant infrastructure damage in recent natural disasters.

Standard & Poor's has upgraded the Alameda County Redevelopment Agency, Calif.'s series 2006A tax allocation bonds to AA-minus from A-minus, the agency announced Friday.

A California legislative committee tasked with fixing the state’s transportation funding woes kicked off its work, vowing not to let the difficulty of the choices facing them prevent a solution from emerging.

Standard & Poor's has affirmed its AA rating on San Mateo County Board of Education, Calif.'s certificates of participation and removed the rating from CreditWatch, where it had been placed on Sept. 16.

Christopher Brogdon, who was at the center of more than a dozen problematic healthcare municipal bond deals for which at least $2 million was unaccounted for, will resign from the board of healthcare firm AdCare.