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Bond issuers in California would have to provide significantly more disclosure to a state agency under recently introduced legislation.

State lawmakers are looking at gas tax hikes and other proposals to increase funding for local transportation projects.

Public finance lawyer Robert Haight has joined the San Francisco office of Holland & Knight, the firm announced Tuesday.

Lisa Washburn, a managing director with Municipal Market Analytics, is the new chair of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District's decision to abandon the $1.45 billion, 400-megawatt Iowa Hill pumped storage generation project is good for its credit, Moody's Investors Service said Friday.

Interstate tolling is one way to make federal transportation funding more productive, CBO says.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on King County, Wash.'s existing debt to negative from stable.

The education spending proposed in the California governor’s budget is enough to sustain the sector's healthy and improving credit position, Moody's Investors Service said.

State governors and other public officials who warned that new Environmental Protection Agency regulations could cause significant economic harm to their states and localities are hailing the Supreme Court’s decision to place a stay on the EPA’s plan.

Los Angeles may switch gears mid-stream from a traditional tax-exempt financing to consider a public-private model to expand and renovate its convention center.