Far West

Alaska’s coming $2.3 billion pension obligation bond deal will drive the Frontier State to another downgrade, but neither that or other recent downgrades is seen as an obstacle to the state’s desired pricing.

The former head of the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt bond office says TEB is ignoring alleged violations on a financing for a Syracuse mall that benefited from breaks sought by Hillary Clinton.

The Los Angeles school board refused to renew three charters for a charter school system with outstanding bonds that has faced financial problems and questions about connections to Turkey’s coup.

Oregon has inaugurated the use of a new state program managed by the Oregon Department of Education that offers a dollar-to-dollar match of up to $4 million to districts whose voters approve local bonds.

Gloria Papiez will become acting director of the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, the state's primary financial regulator, on Nov. 1.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation to provides public money to build a National Football League stadium in Las Vegas.

California tax revenue came in $217 million below the expected $24.8 billion for the first three months of fiscal 2017 , according to a California Department of Finance release.

Transit advocates see Baltimore's proposed Red Line as key part of multi-state rail link.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board must now have at least one municipal advisor representative board member present to constitute a quorum under a rule change it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to finalize new open-end fund liquidity requirements that market participants said would hurt the industry by damaging the funds' appetites for munis.