Far West

Moody's Investors Service dropped Richmond, Calif. to junk late Tuesday with a three-notch downgrade that brought the city's implied general obligation rating to Ba1.

The North Carolina House puts a proposed $1.7 billion road infrastructure plan on fast track.

Challenges to $9 billion of bonds to pay for California's $68 billion high speed rail project are far from over.

The Environmental Protection Agency has given Alaska a temporary pass on the EPA's latest carbon emissions rules because of the state's unique energy infrastructure challenges, a decision praised by the governor.

Higher than expected revenues gives Missouri the needed matching funds for federal road dollars in 2017.

Nat Singer, senior managing director at Swap Financial Group, will become the new chair of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board on Oct. 1.

Within hours of the Obama Administration's release of the final Clean Power Plan on Monday, opponents vowed to take legal action to block the rule while others hailed the measure.

Standard & Poor's upgraded Wyoming's Fremont County School District No. 1 to A-plus from A.

The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority is going to sell $67 million of bonds to refund debt it used to purchase a hydroelectric plant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Moody's Investors Service revised the outlook on Los Angeles County's $1.6 billion in outstanding debt ahead of plans to refund $205 million in lease revenue bonds.