Far West

Nevada, Wyoming and Texas received high marks in a Morningstar report on how their state permanent fund programs affect credit analysis of individual bonds.

Kirk Caldwell, mayor of Honolulu City and County, turned down a raise recommended by the region's salary commission in effect agreeing to a 9% pay cut.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on San Francisco to stable from negative on an improved budget and reserves.

Critics of a proposal to build a 250-room hotel and conference center on the University of California at Los Angeles campus challenged its tax-exempt status in court.

Alaska's legislature this week passed legislation pushed by Gov. Sean Parnell that would cut oil taxes and cost the state billions.

A Los Angeles County employees union held a rally outside the County Administration building Tuesday asking for more money after CEO Bill Fujioka released a $24.7 billion balanced budget.

California taxpayers may see the municipal pension contributions they fund for the California Public Employees' Retirement System rise as much as 50%.

Speakers at an Urban Land Institute event, described the next phase of California's redevelopment agency dissolution during which properties owned by the successor agencies will be sold.

Despite economic growth, the majority of public finance sectors still face a negative outlook for the remainder of 2013, according to a new Moody's Investors Service report.

A lawsuit by Caldwell Flores Winters, Inc. for breach of contract and the resulting counter-complaint by small, rural Willits United School District, Calif. spotlights controversial practices critics see in California school district bond sales.