Far West

A Los Angeles Committee's bid for the 2024 Olympic Games is a "conceptual overview with limited details of how the 2024 Games would be staged," according to city analysts' report.

While growth rates and the trajectory of the economy have improved considerably, Oregon is not yet fully healed from the recession and may suffer from the retirement of older workers, the state's economic forecast showed.

Washington State is racking up court-imposed penalties approaching $2 million, a positive for the credits of school districts in the state, Moody's Investors Service said this week.

State lawmakers have authorized more than $8 billion of new road bonds in 2015, with billions more of new revenues up to the voters in fall elections.

Kym Arnone, the current chair of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, has left Barclays Capital, according to a company spokesperson.

The California Supreme Court declined to review an appeals court's decision on a contested financing method used by Fresno Unified School District.

The National Association of Bond Lawyers has updated its bankruptcy guide for members with new information drawn from the relatively high number of municipal bankruptcy filings in the last few years.

Standard & Poor's has affirmed its A-plus rating for Washougal, Wash. water and sewer revenue bonds ahead of a $10.8 million deal.

Transportation advocates target 16 members of key House committees with radio ads for multiyear highway and transit funding.

The 60 Plus Association announced on Thursday that it is forming a coalition of small holders of Puerto Rico bonds that will push for the creation of a financial control board and oppose bankruptcy legislation for the territory.