California

The Far West Region mirrored the U.S. with municipal bond sales dropping 24.8% during the first half of 2014 compared to the same period a year earlier.

Changes to California's school pension contribution laws will create budgetary challenges for the state's school districts after 2017, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The fate of a California state school facilities bond measure proposal, originally priced at $9 billion, could be decided during a Senate Appropriation Committee hearing on Thursday.

The 114-mile stretch of California's high speed rail project from Fresno to Bakersfield received approval from a federal railway oversight board on Tuesday.

A strike or work slowdown at U.S. West Coast ports could result in the loss of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy if goods are diverted to non-U.S. ports, a Fitch Ratings report said.

California lawmakers are considering a $7.2 billion water bond for the November ballot as the discussion goes into overtime.

California is off to a strong start for fiscal year 2014-15 as July revenues came in above estimates, according to State Controller John Chiang.

A recently announced increase in state-run health insurance rates is a positive for California's non-profit hospitals, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.

The California Economic Summit is urging state lawmakers to enact a new law that would give local governments broader authority in creating infrastructure financing districts.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that he is conducting his second annual review of every city department as part of his commitment to improve accountability and performance measurement in city government.

Orange County Transportation Authority, Calif., received a two-notch ratings bump on its senior lien toll road revenue bonds to AA-minus from Standard & Poor's on Tuesday.

After almost two years of preparation, an adverse ruling Monday on the hotel sales tax that would have funded the majority of San Diego's planned convention center expansion sends city leaders back to the drawing board.

California Governor Jerry Brown is pushing a scaled-down $6 billion water bond to go on the November ballot as other bond proposals in the state legislature remain stalled.

If the State of California wants to maximize refunding savings then the Legislature should authorize "oversight boards" to issue refunding bonds on behalf of successor agencies.

Standard & Poor's has upgraded the rating on general obligation bonds issued by the Pittsburg Unified School Districted, located east of San Francisco in Contra Costa County.

A water main break that resulted in the release of an estimated 20 million gallons of water, flooding Westside Los Angeles neighborhoods and the University of California-Los Angeles campus, is reflective of problems cities across the country face as they grapple with aging infrastructures.

California's new law that requires municipal issuers to disclose to the California Debt Investment and Advisory Commission their private placements and direct loans from banks is beneficial to investors and analysts, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The California 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the state may resume selling $10 billion in bonds for its $68 billion high speed rail project.

The state of California is planning to sell $2.8 billion of revenue anticipation notes in its lowest cash flow borrowing transaction in eight years.

A water main break that flooded the University of California-Los Angeles campus in Westwood raises the specter of the need for the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power to ratchet up its capital improvement program.