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San Francisco-based Dignity Health plans to issue $1.4 billion worth of debt through several private placement deals and a taxable bond issuance up to $888 million in the first two weeks of October.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill authorizing a bond issuance for the Monterey Peninsula's water project.

California's Department of Water Resources is planning to sell $625 million of water revenue bonds to refund a portion of its outstanding bonds for debt service savings.

California cities reeling from the California Public Employees' Retirement System plans to crank up rates over the next five years are looking for the exit door, but find the costs and the rules made by CalPERS make leaving all but impossible.

Washington State University has been authorized to sell up to $16.25 million of revenue bonds for a new health clinic at its Spokane, Wash. campus.

Former District of Columbia Treasurer Lasana Mack was reported missing earlier this month, and a body found in a Maryland park is believed to be his, police said.

Transportation Department doesn't account for how it awards federal TIGER grants, GAO says in new report.

California completed its sale on Tuesday of $2.37 billion of general obligation bonds, meeting strong demand from both retail and institutional investors.

Cathedral City officials have twice drawn on reserves this year to make bond payments on $12.3 million in community development district bonds issued to pay for instrastructure for the 1,362-unit Verano, a master-planned community in the Coachella Valley city.

Gasoline tax revenues are not a reliable long-term source for financing transportation infrastructure, Pew Charitable Trusts said in new report.