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Peter Hughes has been appointed to a three-year term as Orange County's performance audit director.

Moody's Investors Service upgraded Citrus Valley Health Partners, Calif.'s underlying revenue bond ratings to Baa3.

Officials at Portland, Ore.'s Metro want to complete the bond financing of a long-delayed hotel adjacent to its convention center after a recent major courtroom victory.

The oil and gas industry is pressing Congress to permit exports of crude as prices remain at the lowest since the 2008 global financial crisis. The campaign comes as Houston and other energy dependent credits face growing pain from the falling prices, according to Fitch Ratings.

Honolulu's $1.9 billion in improvements to wastewater systems wasn't enough to prevent hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater spillage after Tropical Depression Kilo soaked Oahu.

Phoenix voters have approved a $31.7 billion transportation plan funded by an increase in a dedicated sales tax.

Most cities' "bottom lines" are positive and have bounced back from the financial crisis, though many are still in negative territory and are vulnerable to becoming distressed if they aren't already, according to a new report from Merritt Research Services president and chief executive officer Richard Ciccarone.

A U.S. district court judge has scheduled a trial for late summer of next year in the Securities and Exchange Commission case against the city of Miami and Michael Boudreaux, the city's former budget director.

Sacramento is planning to convert existing short-term debt into long-term bonds next month to finance its share of an arena for the Sacramento Kings basketball team.

A local engineering firm and its founder made a $2 million donation that provides one quarter of the local matching funds needed to qualify for federal grants on a $119 million runway project.