Far West

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.

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.