Richard Williamson

Texas' largest county issued $196 million of road bonds with top ratings drawing strong demand from institutional investors.

Fort Worth will ask voters to approve using $225 million of public funds with matching private donations to build a $450 million multipurpose arena in the city's Cultural District.

San Antonio will close on a $233 million bond deal that includes new money and refunding after institutional investors quickly grabbed the top-rated bonds.

Texas emerged as the top state in bond volume in the first half of 2014 as issuance across the Southwest rose 1.9% compared to the same time last year, data from Thomson Reuters shows.

Revenues of $992 million surpassed those of any previous July, rising 7.4% over the same month last year, state Treasurer Ken Miller said.

The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority expects savings of 8.52% on $195 million of revenue refunding bonds pricing this month.

Fort Worth Independent School District should be able to absorb a finding that it owes the Texas Education Agency nearly $40 million, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Texas sales tax revenues rose 6.3% to $2.34 billion in July, marking the 52nd straight month of increases, state Comptroller Susan Combs said.

Standard & Poor's downgraded Kansas to AA from AA-plus and retained a negative outlook Wednesday, citing budget imbalances in the wake of controversial income tax cuts.

A bitter campaign over limiting oil and gas operations in Colorado is sidelined by Gov. John Hickenlooper's deal with environmentalists and energy producers.

Lagging corporate and sales tax collections tugged Arkansas' July revenue below forecast for the first month of the fiscal year, officials said.

Texas offered $15.3 million and other favorable conditions to land the $85 million SpaceX launch site, officials said.

Denver's fifth annual attempt to popularize its debt among its citizens proved successful with $12 million of "Mini-Bonds" sold in about an hour.

The largest city in Kansas will issue $73 million of general obligation bonds to finance road, bridge and highway improvement projects.

School districts in Austin and its booming suburbs are pouring more than $550 million of top-rated bonds into a lean and hungry primary market.

A $70 million unpaid bill from El Paso Children's Hospital prompts layoffs at University Medical Center and a plea for a $20 million loan from the El Paso County Commissioners.

After three months of falling below projections, Kansas revenues rebounded in July, officials said.

San Antonio and Bexar County officials have reversed course and called for a voter referendum on a $280 million streetcar project.

The Allen, Texas, Independent School District will use $2 million of existing bond funds to repairs a two-year-old stadium that cost $60 million to build.

With no debt on its books, Salt Lake City International Airport has broken ground on a $1.8 billion redevelopment that will not require a bond issue until 2016 at the earliest, officials said.