Nora Colomer

An infrastructure crisis that includes resolution of its jail construction project represent one of the bigger challenges Wayne County, Michigan must tackle to remain fiscally healthy, county executive Warren Evans said in his State of the County speech.

The popularity of the National Basketball Association’s champion Cleveland Cavaliers may not extend to Cuyahoga County’s proposal to sell $140 million of bonds to update the team’s 22-year-old arena.

The Omaha City council is considering several revenue streams to support borrowing that would help finance a proposed $156 million streetcar system.

A two-year Indiana state budget is moving to the Senate after gaining approval in the House.

Lagging Nebraska tax revenue resulted in a new cut to the state’s revenue forecast.

A struggling Indiana highway public-private partnership may have turned a corner.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced a plan he says will help the city meet a 2024 balloon payment on its pension obligation.

In a change of course, a Detroit authority will issue new bonds to finance the $34 million cost of adapting the under-construction Little Caesars Arena to house the Detroit Pistons basketball team.

The Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representative voted down legislation to roll back the state’s income tax legislation.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio-based MetroHealth System was placed on Credit Watch with negative implications by S&P Global Ratings.

A plan that would raise taxes to fund Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation’s expansion of bus services throughout Indianapolis is headed to the Marion County City-County Council for a vote Monday.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says the city is on track to exit state fiscal oversight by 2018 after a third straight year of balancing its books.

The general obligation limited tax bonds of 32 local governments in Michigan were upgraded one notch on the back of a ratings methodology change by Moody’s Investors Service.

A plan to eliminate Michigan’s income tax is headed to the full state House of Representatives for a vote.

Flint and its utility customers are on the verge of losing water credits that offered more than $40 million in payment relief and help in covering city water payments at it recovered from it water contamination crisis.

Legislation that would pave the way for state oversight and appointment of an emergency manager for Indiana’s embattled Gary Community School Corp. in Indiana is headed to the state House after passing the Senate.

Indiana is looking for solutions to concerns S&P Global Ratings raised over its school bond intercept program when it placed the program on CreditWatch negative.

Canton, Ohio, was slapped with a two-notch downgrade over its ongoing budget struggles.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder presented a fiscal 2018 budget plan to tackle the state’s unfunded retiree obligations and bolster education funding while maintaining growth in the rainy day fund.

Wayne County Executive Warren Evans said he is keeping the county’s options open for a jail site after the backers behind a Major League Soccer expansion bid proposed a site swap.