Kyle Glazier

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.

Alaska, North Dakota and Wyoming are the states most "in the crosshairs" as energy revenues look to remain low well into next year, Fitch Ratings said.

Middle-market securities dealers need to redouble efforts to make their voices heard as regulators prepare to tighten the reins on the muni market, Bond Dealers of America members said.

Sacramento County’s slow progress in building up its reserves could spell trouble for California’s most bond-indebted county.

Royal Dutch Shell's decision to walk away from its unsuccessful drilling efforts in the Alaskan Arctic is credit negative for Alaska, Moody's Investors Service said Monday.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook to negative from stable on Live Oak School District, Calif. general obligation bonds.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the AA-minus rating on Bay Area Toll Authority, Calif.’s approximately $5.7 billion outstanding senior lien toll bridge revenue bonds.

Washington State Treasurer James McIntire announced late Wednesday that he is pleased with the results of the state’s general obligation bond sale this week, including its first ever green bonds.

Facing a $3.5 billion deficit, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is calling the state's legislature into special session Oct. 24 to discuss measures to monetize Alaska's untapped natural gas resources.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded about $23 million of Sonoma Valley Health Care District, Calif. general obligation bonds to Baa1 from A1.

A bond investor’s suspicions triggered a municipal bond trustee’s firing of a vice president but the question remains: what happened to more than $2 million?