Far West

Moody's Investors Service upgraded Fresno, Calif.'s issuer rating to A3 from Baa1 and revised the city’s outlook from stable to positive citing its improved economic profile.

California’s public power utilities could face additional financial pressure over the medium to long term from the passage of new state legislation targeting greenhouse gas emissions, Fitch Rating said.

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District will sell more than $350 million of highly-rated refunding bonds next week to refund bonds issued more than a decade ago.

California lawmakers passed legislation to change the way communities wind down their shuttered redevelopment agencies, leaving cities and their advocates trying to tally the effects of the last-minute bill.

California's legislative session ended Friday without a transportation funding plan, but legislative leaders vowed to complete the work through a conference committee this fall.

Fitch Ratings upgraded the San Francisco Airport Commission's approximately $77.6 million series 1997A and 2000A special facility lease revenue bonds to A-minus from BBB-plus.

Portland, Ore., will need more than $2 billion over the next decade to bring its streets into good shape after years of neglect.

A bill to give the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority more autonomy in public-private partnerships for highway projects could be affected by California’s transportation funding gridlock.

Fitch Ratings has placed $112.5 million of revenue bonds issued for the J. David Gladstone Institute on negative outlook due to "unsustainable" draws on the organization's endowment fund.

Securities and Exchange Commission officials rejected bond lawyers’ suggestions that the settlements with 36 underwriters under the Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative contained specific parameters of continuing disclosure violations.