Far West

Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced plans to form a joint-powers authority to provide electricity

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown released an earthquake preparedness plan as she battles to win re-election.

The Los Angeles airport enterprise received a Moody's ratings boost ahead of plans to price $650 million in subordinate revenue bonds.

Although there is no direct role for tax-exempt bonds in Opportunity Zones, municipalities are looking at them as a way to attract capital investment to economically distressed areas.

California and New York City are showing us the path forward, as they often do, in the face of the new limits on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

California revenues were $1.03 billion ahead of estimates in the first quarter of the fiscal year, according to the state's Department of Finance.

Proposition 4 would authorize $1.5 billion in state GO bonds for 13 childrens' hospitals around the state, eight of them private nonprofits.

An initiative that would create a separate property tax assessment system for non-residential properties qualified for the 2020 ballot.

The state pulled in $28.7 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, according to the State Controller's Office.

The city-owned airport has $6.2 billion of outstanding bonds and plans to embark on several refundings.