Far West

A new guide from AASHTO examines current revenue sources and potential options for bolstering the Highway Trust Fund, including fees based on vehicle miles traveled.

Most states are likely to have more new capacity to issue private-activity bonds in 2015 than they did this year, after the Internal Revenue Service raised the minimum state volume and maintained this year's per capita rate.

If approved by voters, two initiatives in next week's California election could have an impact on the state budget, water credits and school districts, Fitch Ratings says.

The Bond Dealers of America is suggesting a change to the way dealers would get affirmations from sophisticated municipal market professionals under the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's proposed amendments to its rule governing interactions with those market participants to whom dealers owe fewer duties.

The judge in Stockton's bankruptcy case has approved the city's plan to exit bankruptcy, without impairing the California Public Employees Retirement System.

Claims against UBS from Puerto Rican investors have surged to $900 million, the group said Tuesday in its third-quarter earnings report.

Hawaii plans to price $150 million in green bonds the week of Nov. 3 in its first foray into the bond market with its new Green Energy Market Securitization Program.

In next week's general election, California school districts are asking voters to approve 113 separate bond measures, worth a total of $11.6 billion.

The Orange County Transportation Authority, Calif. issued a request for qualifications Oct. 27 seeking firms interested in working on the $900 million expansion of a stretch of Interstate 405.

The State Public Works Board of California is planning to sell $230 million of lease revenue bonds in a refunding deal next week.