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The San Diego City Council approved Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s plan to streamline the bidding process on infrastructure projects.

States will be hard-pressed to maintain their credit quality if they attempt to fund infrastructure needs solely through traditional tax-exempt debt financing, Standard & Poor’s said in a new report.

California State Public Works Board lease revenue bonds were affirmed ahead of plans to issue $210 million to fund prison construction projects.

California's first quarter revenues came in $744 million higher than the $22.5 billion anticipated

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Oct. 16 that the federal government will assist parts of the state that suffered significant infrastructure damage in recent natural disasters.

Standard & Poor's has upgraded the Alameda County Redevelopment Agency, Calif.'s series 2006A tax allocation bonds to AA-minus from A-minus, the agency announced Friday.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s proposed changes to extend its gift rule to municipal advisors “remain unclear in crucial areas” and “do not go far enough to prevent abuses” by both MAs and broker-dealers, the National Association of Municipal Advisors said.

Moody's downgraded Central Basin Municipal Water District, Calif.’s refunding revenue bonds a notch to A1 pointing to declining operating revenues due to conservation efforts from the prolonged drought.

A California legislative committee tasked with fixing the state’s transportation funding woes kicked off its work, vowing not to let the difficulty of the choices facing them prevent a solution from emerging.

A clean energy bill is a credit negative for coal-dependent Southern California municipal utilities, according to Moody’s Investors Service.