Alaska

The transaction, which supports the Navajo community in Ganado, Arizona, represents a major landmark in furthering Native American health care infrastructure, overcoming hurdles tribal governments typically face in issuing municipal debt to open a replicable path to market other indigenous health systems can follow.

The railroad corporation's bond financing used a creative risk transfer approach to replace a crumbling cruise ship dock and terminal building.

Ten winners across five regions and five additional categories will be celebrated Dec. 2 in New York City, where one will be crowned the overall Deal of the Year.

The negative outlook affects about $1.1 billion in combined GO and lease revenue debt, according to Fitch.

A growing rainy-day fund helped Alaska win a Moody's Ratings upgrade, bringing the state's issuer and general obligation bond ratings to Aa2 from Aa3.

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.

Governance is the single most important ESG factor in public finance ratings, given the impact of governance structure, Fitch said.

Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to stable from negative on the state's A-plus rating, two weeks after the state received a positive outlook from S&P.

A forecast anticipates an additional $1.2 billion in revenues for the upcoming fiscal year.

Alaska Senate leaders chose not to act on the Gov. Mike Dunleavy's push to pay immediate dividends to taxpayers.

New money volume in the Far West was up 31.9% to $29.5 billion, while refunding volume rose a more modest 11%.