California

The Orange County Water District board will study purchasing up to 50 million gallons of drinking water Thursday through the Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Project.

Despite improved liquidity positions among California schools, cash flow borrowing is expected to remain at elevated levels during the next year, according to Standard & Poor's.

California's plans for a $68 billion high-speed rail system attracted Katherine Perez-Estolano, one of the state's most well-known transportation planners, to its board despite a series of issues faced by the project.

A watchdog group asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an ethics investigation into a potential conflict of interest involving the David Valadao, R-Calif. on legislation aimed at killing California's high-speed rail project.

A California state judge denied the state's motion to dismiss a lawsuit over its cancelled deal to sell 11 state-owned buildings to private investors.

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's former communications director filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the city evoking bipartisan calls of resignation from two city councilmembers.

The Port of Oakland approved a litigation settlement agreement that extends lease agreements that were set to expire in 2016-17 on several cargo terminals.

Gov. Jerry Brown made two appointments to the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank including Teveia Barnes as executive director.

California Gov. Jerry Brown and four previous California governors filed a brief earlier this week opposing the release of inmates from the state's crowded prisons.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced three appointments to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority board.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has suspended consideration of a $5.5 billion loan request for a high-speed rail project from Las Vegas to Southern California.

The Bay Area Toll Authority will come to market with its first new money deal in three years, selling $750 million in subordinate toll revenue bonds.

Figtree Energy Financing, one of the leading California companies structuring bond financing through Property Assessed Clean Energy programs, recently closed on a $809,000 privately-placed bond funding seven projects.

A poll released by Probolsky Research/PublicCEO.com shows that California voters oppose new, local taxes and fees, but approved of the job their mayors and city/town councils and county supervisors are doing.

Figtree Energy Financing officials said a financing process established when it closed on a $809,000 private placement bond on July 10 will enable it to place a minimum of $500,000 in private placement bonds every 60 days.

San Francisco Community College District's pending accreditation loss is a credit negative, says Moody's Investors Service.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned from her position on Friday to take over the University of California system.

The largest creditors in San Bernardino, Calif.'s Chapter 9 bankruptcy are taking opposing positions on a decision that will determine the city's eligibility to be in bankruptcy.

Several bills to help reinvent redevelopment tools for California municipalities are again making their way through the state legislature after Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed similar bills last year.

A San Mateo County civil grand jury called a school district's capital appreciation bonds outstanding a "ticking time bomb."