California

An unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accuses eight Wall Street and regional banks and broker-dealers that served as remarketing agents of fraud and collusion in resetting rates for variable rate demand obligations issued by state and local issuers in Illinois.

Nearly 60% of Los Angeles County's $30.8 billion budget for fiscal 2019 will go for health and public assistance programs.

San Diego's regional transportation agency agreed to pay legal fees ending a long-running legal battle with environmental groups.

Employers in New York also are allowed to implement a 5% payroll tax as a way of paying some of their employees’ state income taxes.

The number of people being pushed into homelessness continues to outpace efforts to help them.

Bill Glasgall, senior vice president at the Volcker Alliance, and Sarah Swanbeck, from the University of California at Berkeley, discuss how the state of California became the comeback kid in finances. What is the state doing right with its budget? Where do its finances need improvement? And what’s the outlook for the state going forward? Chip Barnett hosts.

Anna Van Degna, who was a Stifel managing director, now heads San Francisco's Office of Public Finance.

California's attorney general says the hospital chain used anti-competitive practices to drive up prices in Northern California.

Alum Rock Union Elementary still faces challenges from probes into alleged fiscal mismanagement.

Encinitas City Council members are leaning toward borrowing close to $30 million so the city can overhaul much of Leucadia's portion of Coast Highway 101 all at once, instead of doing the project into three phases as previously proposed.