Alaska

These institutions will see increased usage if some threats to the market come to fruition.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed legislation approving the issuance of up to $135 million in revenue bonds to replace a cruise ship terminal.

The rating agency cited the state's ample reserves, robust natural resource base and critical role in U.S. strategic interests.

Alaska's efforts to manage its cyclical revenues brought an upgrade from S&P Global Ratings and positive outlook from Moody's Ratings.

Accounting errors are Juneau School District's biggest fiscal problem, but it shares financial and demographic challenges with Alaska's other school districts.

Over the next few months, the state will be crafting regulations for a carbon emissions bill it hopes will provide an additional revenue source to help smooth some of the state's economic volatility.

The state, burdened with volatile revenue streams because of its dependence on natural resources, has lower ratings from Fitch, Moody's and S&P .

Raising money by participating in carbon credit markets and carbon sequestration schemes would ease Alaska's revenue dependence on oil, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said.

The spiderweb of funding sources for natural disaster recovery makes it hard to track the actual costs to state and local government of fighting wildfires.

The downgrades for Alaska's largest city come less than two months after the mayor set returning the city's ratings to AAA as a goal in his fiscal 2023 budget.