California

Muni vet Dana Villanova has joined Kestrel Verifiers as director of business development.

Montebello Unified School District allegedly defrauded investors in the sale of $100 million in general obligation bonds.

The charter boarding school is designed to lift homeless youth and foster children in largely Latino and African-American neighborhoods in South Los Angeles.

The private activity bonds would be used to help finance the planned Virgin Trains USA line to Victorville, Calif., from Las Vegas.

The city approved a joint powers agreement with four other cities to purchase electricity to be delivered over San Diego Gas & Electric lines.

Janet Napolitano said her resignation would be effective in August 2020.

Lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would set up a commission to study if the state should require the machine-readable accounting program.

Some of the solutions contemplated to bring the investor-owned utility out of bankruptcy involve tapping the municipal bond market.

Expanded access to lower-cost borrowing is a credit positive for the charter school sector, according to Moody’s investors Service.

After less than a year, the groundbreaking renewable-energy bond sale has run into problems, including several technical defaults.

Thursby's addition grows the firm's number of public finance attorneys to 16.

The FBI probe and churn in upper management may make future rate increases a tough sell, S&P analysts said.

California's Legislative Analyst's Office wants state lawmakers to have a framework to evaluate cash borrowing proposals.

The Fitch Ratings outlook on the BBB San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency is now positive.

Two courts have interpreted a legal question key to the VRDO lawsuits very differently.

County supervisors gave the treasurer and tax collector 180 days to come back with recommendations for a public finance diversity and inclusion initiative.

The bonds sold for Paradise, the town nearly leveled by a 2018 fire, remain at speculative grade.

Issuers in the nine-state Far West region sold $34.6 billion of municipal bonds in 2019's first six months.

Market participants are questioning IFS' future and how a rogue trader engaged in unsupervised trades.

The funds will be used to help local water systems provide safe drinking water.