Far West

Economic study says privately financed Texas bullet train could generate billions of tax dollars for state and local governments.

Standard & Poor's has affirmed its AA rating on San Mateo County Board of Education, Calif.'s certificates of participation and removed the rating from CreditWatch, where it had been placed on Sept. 16.

The District of Columbia’s recent institutional investor conference is likely to lead to increased demand for its bonds, the city’s chief financial officer said.

Environmental advocates called a San Diego regional planning agency’s $204 billion transportation plan a re-tread of its 2011 plan that favors highways over transit.

The Treasury Department is now estimating that the extraordinary measures it’s been using to preserve the U.S. borrowing capacity since the debt limit was reached will be exhausted by Nov. 3 – two days earlier than a previous estimate.

Moody’s Investors Service revises Hawaii’s outlook to positive ahead of $747 million bond sale.

A bipartisan bill offered in the House would extend the Qualified Zone Academy Bond program by providing $400 million of volume cap for the bonds in each of 2015 and 2016.

Alaska, North Dakota and Wyoming are the states most "in the crosshairs" as energy revenues look to remain low well into next year, Fitch Ratings said.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ordered San Juan-based Santander Securities on Tuesday to pay $6.4 million for supervisory failures related to Puerto Rican municipal bonds.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $473.05 million of general obligation refunding bonds issued by Nevada’s Clark County School District in 2007.