Far West

According to California state law, lawmakers only have a week left to wrestle a budget over to the governor's desk, and they just started tackling the beast.

WASHINGTON — Overall, state income and sales tax collections for the first quarter increased by 4.1% compared to the same quarter last year, the Rockefeller Institute of Government said in a report Thursday.

Moody’s Investors Service said the upcoming redemption of Idaho housing bonds is a positive for investors.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced the appointment Wednesday of Vince Harris as director of capital programs and construction.

Fitch Ratings downgraded $93 million of bonds issued on behalf of Aspire Public Schools to junk because of a lawsuit that could end the charters for half of its schools.

The struggling city of Hercules, Calif., got two boosts from voters on Tuesday.

Voters in California Tuesday appeared to reject a ballot initiative that would have increased taxes on cigarettes by $1 a pack.

California voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a proposition that changes term limits for lawmakers.

A tax-exempt bond advisory group to the IRS found that some of the agency's bond-related forms are overly burdensome for issuers and recommended that some questions be eliminated.

WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia's City Council has proposed delaying until Jan. 1, 2013, plans to start taxing non-D.C. bonds purchased by district residents.