Far West

Public Utility District #1 of Klickitat County, Wash. is going to sell $79 million of revenue and refunding bonds for its electrical infrastructure.

President Obama signed Congress's latest transportation funding extension while criticizing lawmakers for the short-term HTF fix.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board late Friday filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission revised content outlines to its qualification exams for municipal fund securities limited principals, municipal securities representatives, and municipal securities principals that will bring the tests in line with recent MSRB rule changes.

Bankruptcies in Detroit, Jefferson County, Ala., and three California cities helped spawn a new breed of activist judges, who may use Chapter 9 cases as the platform not just for reorganizing municipal debt, but also for helping set the stage for turning distressed cities around.

Although drought conditions in Oregon are bad for credit overall, and especially in agricultural communities, official drought declarations by Gov. Kate Brown are a positive development, Moody’s Investors Service said Friday.

The Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority in Washington State is planning to sell nearly $1 billion of green bonds Aug. 4 to pay for its mass transit system and for possible refunding purposes.

San Bernardino reached a tentative agreement with the police union, but negotiations continue with its firefighters’ union and the holder and insurer of its pension obligation bonds.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced that he has hired transit expert and consultant Michael Burns to oversee Oahu’s $6 billion elevated rail project.

Standard & Poor's placed Palm Drive Health Care District, Calif.'s revenue debt on negative watch due to lack of timely information.

The backers of a ballot measure to give voters direct decision-making authority over California pensions are waiting to see how the state attorney general treats it.