Far West

The full House is expected to vote today on a bill designed to help Puerto Rico after the House Rules Committee set the table for the bill's consideration during a lengthy hearing that stretched into Wednesday night.

The UCLA Anderson Forecast revised its expectations for both California and the national economy downward.

California local government officials and other stakeholders are becoming increasingly uneasy about the lack of activity in the state legislature’s special session on transportation.

Voters in Wake County, N.C., will decide in November whether to approve a 0.5% increase in the local sales tax to fund a 10-year, $2.39 billion transit plan to reduce highway congestion in the Raleigh area.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has received 585 applications seeking $9.3 billion of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants – almost 19 times more than the $500 that is to be awarded later this year.

The Port of Los Angeles board of commissioners approved a $1.17 billion budget Friday that includes no immediate plans for long-term debt.

Lawyers with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe are concerned about a ruling by a federal appeals court last week that found a constitutional challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission's use of administrative proceedings to impose penalties in enforcement cases could not move forward until the proceedings end.

Alaska's legislature passed a budget with a $3.2 billion draw on the state's Constitutional Budget Reserve after rejecting fiscal reforms urged by Gov. Bill Walker.

Former California Treasurer Bill Lockyer has been hired to help Industry, Calif. come up with a plan to deal with accounting irregularities.

With housing costs soaring as demand exceeds supply, California Treasurer John Chiang is trying to put billions of dollars in unused private activity bond authority to work to build affordable housing.