California

Environmental advocates called a San Diego regional planning agency’s $204 billion transportation plan a re-tread of its 2011 plan that favors highways over transit.

Sacramento County’s slow progress in building up its reserves could spell trouble for California’s most bond-indebted county.

Lewis Feldman, the founding chair of Goodwin Procter’s Los Angeles office, has left the national law firm to run a firm that advises and invests in crowdfunding platforms.

California plans to price $446 million in veterans’ general obligation bonds on Oct. 7 and 8 in a combined refunding/new money sale so it can offer more home loans to veterans.

Many public agencies in California do not have an internal control system to manage their bond funds, according to a draft report for a task force commissioned by State Treasurer John Chiang.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook to negative from stable on Live Oak School District, Calif. general obligation bonds.

California achieved $104 million in present value savings on a $548.2 million lease revenue bond refunding for the State Public Works Board, according to Treasurer John Chiang.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the AA-minus rating on Bay Area Toll Authority, Calif.’s approximately $5.7 billion outstanding senior lien toll bridge revenue bonds.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plans to sell $349 million in revenue bonds next week to fund construction of its film museum.

Standard & Poor’s analysts say a recent bill to smooth the process of dissolving California’s agencies will have minimal effect on credit.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded about $23 million of Sonoma Valley Health Care District, Calif. general obligation bonds to Baa1 from A1.

A water banking agreement between Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a credit positive, Moody’s Investors Service said.

The California Department of Finance approved spending $10 million from budget reserves to clean up debris considered a safety hazard from two fires that ravaged Northern California.

The National Football League is asking its players to help finance any new stadium in Los Angeles, a prerequisite to putting a team in the No. 2 U.S. media market for the first time since the Raiders and Rams bolted in 1994.

The Fremont-Rideout Health Group received a three-notch Standard & Poor's downgrade to BBB from A on three series of revenue bonds, citing a sharp deterioration in financial performance.

Major bond-financed investments have been paying off for some of Northern California’s smaller airports, which have seen their multi-billion dollar projects followed by more airline and passenger business.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that brings back redevelopment in a limited way, notably by creating new community revitalization investment authorities that can issue tax-increment debt.

The authors of a California pension initiative effort are abandoning their existing measure and writing a new one.

Standard & Poor's affirmed its AA-minus rating for San Francisco Unified School District.

The three states that rely on the Colorado River for their water supplies will not face federal rationing in 2016, a fact that is credit positive for bond issuers in the region, according to Moody’s Investors Service.