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The District of Columbia next week will issue $577.6 million in general obligation bonds partly to finance projects under the district's capital improvements plan.

Time has run out on California lawmakers’ efforts to pass new transportation funding legislation in 2016, a sharp turnaround from the optimism that local government groups had expressed only a few days ago.

S&P Global Ratings analysts said new California’s law emphasis on debt management policies could bode well for issuer’s credit quality.

Late vote counts in California appear to have swung another seven ballot measures into the win column.

California issuers won’t face most new disclosure requirements until 2018 under a new law that takes effect in January.

Worrisome signs remain for the Oregon economy ahead of Gov. Kate Brown's budget proposal Dec. 1, necessitating some cuts the state’s chief executive said.

Republicans this week said they are working toward a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through March 31 instead of a full-year appropriations bill, a decision that disappointed Democrats and several GOP members.

Self-driving vehicles could be the ticket for replacing the fuel tax as the main road funding mechanism, accord to transportation experts.

Hawaii tops the national in GDP growth this year, but inflation is expected to slow the island state’s growth through 2019.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board announced on Thursday that starting on Feb. 27, academic institutions will be able to request one-year data sets from a new data product that would identify dealers in some way without naming them.