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Los Angeles city leaders offer support for Anschutz Entertainment Group's request for an extension to sign the National Football League team required for its soon-to-expire contract with the city to construct an NFL stadium and convention center expansion.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed into law a bill that will make it easier for local governments to take advantage of a current infrastructure financing law.

A ruling by a Superior Court judge in Orange County, Calif., Friday cleared the way for the Anaheim City Council to sell $300 million in bonds to pay for a 200,000-square-foot convention center expansion.

A Superior Court judge in Riverside County will hear arguments Oct. 31 on a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by Ontario, California seeking the return of its airport from Los Angeles.

Bonds issued for a District of Columbia charter school in 2007 have been downgraded to B-minus from B-plus by Standard & Poor's because of pending litigation, the rating agency said Friday.

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.