California

The judge in the San Bernardino bankruptcy case tentatively ruled Thursday that the city could reject its current collective bargaining agreement with the firefighter's union.

Fitch Ratings has upgraded more than $720 million of debt issued for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System.

California cities are moving ahead on convention center expansions despite lingering questions about whether convention center expansions pay off for cities.

In its smallest cash-flow borrowing deal since 2006, California achieved a record-low interest rate on its $2.8 billion sale of revenue anticipation notes on Wednesday.

California's state controller released a monthly report this week, showing the state's revenues for the month of August came in below estimates.

Another two petitions have been filed asking the California Supreme Court to review a recent decision to allow the High Speed Rail Authority to issue bonds for the rail project.

Termed out Los Angeles County Supervisors Gloria Molina and Zev Yaroslavsky are taking different paths after serving two decades in their seats.

A review of the California Public Employees' Retirement System by the state controller's office found no incidences of pension spiking, but did find deficiencies in the system's approach to monitoring abuse.

California Controller John Chiang unveiled a new website on Monday that lists more than 13 million fields of financial data for cities and counties throughout the state.

Poway Unified School District, the California school district that sparked state legislation limiting school district capital appreciation bond issuance, is contemplating a bond buyback and refinancing to retire some of its more expensive CAB maturities.

Stockton, Calif.'s wastewater system revenue bonds have been upgraded ahead of an $79 million refunding bond sale.

With California's legislative session at an end, the fate of many public finance bills now lies in the hands of Gov. Jerry Brown, including several tax increment financing bills that could partly replace redevelopment agencies.

Karol Denniston, an attorney known for her municipal restructuring work, has left Schiff Hardin to work in Squire Patton Boggs' San Francisco office.

California Gov. Jerry Brown sent a request to the White House this week requesting federal funds to help communities recover from the recent earthquake that struck the Napa Valley region.

Los Angeles received an improved outlook to positive from stable and affirmation of its ratings from Standard & Poor's ahead of plans to issue $81 million in lease revenue bonds on Sept. 10.

Opponents of California's $68 billion high-speed rail plan filed a petition to review a recent ruling that allows the $8.7 billion bond issuance for the project.

Los Angeles County hopes to re-launch its Property Assessed Clean Energy residential program by early 2015.

The 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck California's Napa Valley Aug. 24 will not impact any municipal credits that Moody's Investors Service rates.

KeyBanc Capital Markets has hired Zachary Kau to work as a managing director in the San Francisco office heading its healthcare finance business in the Public Finance Group.

Unrated Irvine, Calif., dirt bonds were oversubscribed by five to eight times when they priced in early August amid overall yield compression.