Far West

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed a 25-year agreement with the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians in Nevada for a solar energy project.

A California lawmaker introduced a bill this month that would put a state school construction bond proposition on a ballot in 2014.

A lawsuit challenging the legality of the Dulles Rail project's toll-powered funding mechanism will have to head to yet another venue after the federal court weighing the case decided it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the matter.

Bondholders impacted by the San Bernardino bankruptcy are fighting an attempt by the California Public Employees' Retirement System to be given precedence over other creditors.

Moody's Investors Service cut Fresno, Calif.'s sewer revenue bonds one notch to A1 from Aa3 because of the city's financial problems.

California November tax revenues in November were more than 10% below budget estimates partly due to lower than expected collections from Facebook share sales, according to Controller John Chiang.

The recently appointed administrator of an insolvent Southern California school district, resigned after state officials learned he overstepped his authority by making tentative agreements with the teacher's union.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has changed how it calculates "bid to cover" ratios for auction-rate securities to make the data more indicative of investor demand.

The Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt bond office will continue sending out its semiannual newsletter in 2013 after favorable feedback to its second edition.

Rialto, Calif. will turn over its water and sewer utilities to a public-private partnership in a deal that will see the municipal debt associated with those deals retired.