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Hawaii received one-notch upgrades from two rating agencies ahead of plans to price $675.58 million in general obligation bonds.

Miami City Manager Daniel Alfonso said the city has received a proposed settlement of the Securities and Exchange Commission's case, in which a jury found the city guilty of securities fraud last week.

San Diego-based Palomar Health is set to issue more than $400 million of refunding bonds in the next two weeks, split between investment-grade general obligation debt and junk-rated revenue bonds.

Municipal market participants at The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference shared concrete examples of how disclosure is improving in the wake of the Securities and Exchange Commission's continuing disclosure voluntary enforcement initiative.

California public power credits should remain strong through a “radical transformation” of the state’s energy supply caused by legislative mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Fitch Ratings said Tuesday.

Voter-approved bonds are providing loan money to support the creation of affordable rental homes for San Francisco’s low-income and homeless families and seniors.

A committee charged by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval with finding ways to ramp up tourism advanced a proposal to use $750 million of public money to bring the Oakland Raiders football team to Las Vegas.

State and local governments and showing a wide variety of impacts from the collapse of the oil market that began two years ago, ratings analysts say.

San Bernardino's city attorney said the California city is on track to exit bankruptcy by the end of the year though two major creditors are trying to extend the process.

The securities fraud jury verdict against the city of Miami and its former budget director Michael Boudreaux on Wednesday will likely embolden the Securities and Exchange Commission to litigate rather than settle cases against issuers and their officials, lawyers said on Thursday.