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The California Department of Finance approved spending $10 million from budget reserves to clean up debris considered a safety hazard from two fires that ravaged Northern California.

The National Football League is asking its players to help finance any new stadium in Los Angeles, a prerequisite to putting a team in the No. 2 U.S. media market for the first time since the Raiders and Rams bolted in 1994.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell sent a letter to rail officials demanding answers about $1.1 billion in cost overruns on Oahu’s 20-mile elevated rail project.

The Fremont-Rideout Health Group received a three-notch Standard & Poor's downgrade to BBB from A on three series of revenue bonds, citing a sharp deterioration in financial performance.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells road planners to look at projects that eliminate bottlenecks and reduce traffic congestion.

Major bond-financed investments have been paying off for some of Northern California’s smaller airports, which have seen their multi-billion dollar projects followed by more airline and passenger business.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is pushing to use the Alaska Permanent Fund, traditionally used for payouts to Alaska citizens, to help close the state's budget gap.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that brings back redevelopment in a limited way, notably by creating new community revitalization investment authorities that can issue tax-increment debt.

The authors of a California pension initiative effort are abandoning their existing measure and writing a new one.

Standard & Poor's affirmed its AA-minus rating for San Francisco Unified School District.