Shelly Sigo

Kentucky and Ohio consider options for building and funding a bridge project between Covington, Ky. and Cincinnati that could cost as much as $2.9 billion.

The Tuomey Healthcare System in South Carolina said it is appealing a jury verdict ordering it to pay $277.4 million for False Claims Act violations.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation said environmentalists appealed a federal judge's ruling that would have allowed construction to begin on the Bonner Bridge replacement project.

Broward County plans to target south Florida's retail investors in selling $434.2 million of bonds for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport's $2.3 billion capital program.

Atlanta Public Schools is reviewing its options after the Georgia Supreme Court prohibited school districts from deducting pension costs out of charter school payments.

The Federal Aviation Administration says a North Carolina court should decide who will operate Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

Florida filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking an injunction from the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Georgia's "unchecked and growing consumption of water," state officials said.

A Georgia Supreme Court ruling that Atlanta's charter schools have no legal obligation to share in the Atlanta Independent School System's pension costs is a credit negative for school districts statewide, Moody's Investors Service said Monday.

Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to stop what he called "draconian" federal flood insurance rate increases.

For the first time in four years, Miami has a budget without declaring a fiscal emergency but the city faces legal hurdles, including a federal lawsuit filed by the SEC.

Florida's projected $845 million surplus in fiscal 2015 could erode because of action on the federal budget and debt ceiling, state lawmakers learned Wednesday.

Florida is preparing to sell $390 million of revenue bonds for seaport and transportation projects after getting the OK from top elected officials Sept. 24.

St. Augustine, Fla.'s Glenmoor continuing care retirement community in World Golf Village filed for bankruptcy owing municipal bondholders more than $57.1 million.

West Virginia's Blue Ribbon Commission on Highways recommended a $1 billion bond program to address a deficit in funds needed for transportation projects.

Jefferson County, Ala., commissioners Monday narrowly adopted new sewer rate increases that underpin resolution of the nation's second-largest municipal bankruptcy.

Voters in Raleigh and Wake County, N.C., are casting early ballots until Oct. 5 on bond referendums for schools and roads. The election is Oct. 8.

Georgia has chosen a team of Atlanta and Florida contractors to build the $840 million Northwest Corridor project to relieve severe congestion in the Atlanta region.

Large federal flood insurance rate increases starting Oct. 1 threaten to derail the slowly improving economy in Southeastern Gulf coast states, said regional officials.

Columbia, S.C.’s $750 million sewer plan driven by a federal consent decree is a credit negative, Moody's says. More decrees in the Southeast are likely, the EPA warns.

With Southeast issuers facing big-ticket costs to rehab water and sewer systems under federal court orders, doubt about the future of munis is raising concern.