Richard Williamson

The Utah Board of Regents last week voted to construct the first building on Utah State University’s Brigham City campus in a $15 million deal to be shared with the city.

Standard & Poor’s on Thursday lowered the outlook on Weslaco’s BBB-plus-rated general obligation debt to negative from stable.

BNSF Railroad plans to create a multi-modal logistics center at a New Mexico site known as Rancho Cielo that will include distribution, warehousing and manufacturing facilities, BNSF said at a public meeting in Belen last week.

Colorado Springs is remarketing $66 million of variable-rate utility refunding revenue bonds with a new liquidity provider, effective Tuesday.

Arizona school districts may not use leftover bond money on projects that were not specifically approved by voters, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge has ruled.

DALLAS - With its debt already at a record level, the North Texas Tollway Authority waived a $3.2 billion project offered by the Texas Department of Transportation.

DALLAS - Arizona's Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District achieved savings of about $58 million or 12.3% on a $441.5 million refunding that is the first and largest issue of the year from the electric utility provider, officials said.

DALLAS - Lenders have repossessed a 33-acre retail and entertainment complex adjoining Glendale, Ariz.'s National Hockey League arena after a failed foreclosure auction.

DALLAS - Denver International Airport plans to take advantage of historically low interest rates with $425.9 million of refunding bonds as it pursues a major expansion.

DALLAS - The Arizona Transportation Board has switched lanes to adjust to market conditions, planning to substitute a senior-lien excise tax revenue bond issue for a subordinate-lien highway revenue bond sale that had been expected this week.

DALLAS - Laredo, Texas, an unlikely home for professional ice hockey, is expanding its role in minor-league sports with a baseball stadium financed with $11.3 million of sales-tax revenue bonds.

A subcommittee of the New Mexico House Rules Committee has been named to consider impeachment of Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. after the current 30-day special session.

DALLAS - The Texas A&M University System is giving a lean muni market a taste of its top-rated debt Wednesday with $87.2 million of bonds backed by the Texas Permanent University Fund.

DALLAS - After achieving its lowest short-term rates ever on $9.8 billion of tax and revenue anticipation notes, Texas will see what the long-term market has to offer in a $116 million deal next week.

San Antonio’s hopes to build a streetcar line that could lead to more rail projects suffered a setback after two leaders of an advisory commission resigned recently.

Voters in San Antonio’s North East Independent School District will consider $399.4 million of general obligation bonds in November after unanimous approval of the issue by the board of trustees.

A rural southern Colorado school district has warned state officials that its financial problems are getting near the point where it may be unable to pay its debt.

The Aurora City Council has declared 125 acres of vacant land near Denver International Airport “blighted” in a step toward developing a Gaylord Entertainment Co. resort that would adjoin the proposed new home of the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo.

DALLAS - Property tax collections in Arizona's largest county will fall for the third straight year as real estate values continue to plunge, officials said.

DALLAS - With its federal funding restored amid efforts to regain public trust, the Harris County Metropolitan Transit Authority in Houston is preparing a $511 million deal to get its belated light-rail expansion back on track.