Florida

Four consortiums whose members include top firms in the public-private partnership industry compete for Florida’s $2.4 billion “I-4 Ultimate Project.”

The Council of Development Finance Agencies plans two, one-day roundtable conferences in the Southeast this year – its first in Florida and the second in Georgia.

An applicant who once wanted to be the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority's new director alleges the agency committed to projects that will cause a deficit.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's fraud case against Miami and its former budget director Michael Boudreaux is on hold pending Boudreaux's appeal of the court's decision to invalidate his effort to claim immunity from the lawsuit.

Jacksonville, Fla., the Sunshine state's largest city, could tap its own utility system to help close the gap on a $1.68 billion pension liability.

Attorneys for Georgia have asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to entertain a lawsuit from Florida over water rights between the states.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott recommended a $74.2 billion state budget for fiscal 2015, and $2.7 billion in bonds for transportation projects.

For the first time, the South Florida Bond Traders Association will include issues of interest to the municipal bond market in its Feb. 6-8 conference.

Former Florida state Rep. Steve Precourt has declined an offer to be the executive director of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.

Miami and former budget director Michael Boudreaux have requested a jury trial and denied most of the Securities and Exchange Commission's fraud allegations in recent federal court filings.

Florida's latest debt affordability report shows that new bond capacity is available largely because of growth in revenues

An investigation of Florida's Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority prompted the board Wednesday to reduce the terms of a contract offer to the new executive director.

Florida conservation groups have obtained enough signatures on petitions to ask voters to approve funding and bond financing to purchase environmentally sensitive lands.

After years developing a public-private partnership for a $1 billion Miami Beach Convention Center hotel and entertainment district, city commissioners called off the deal.

Recent negative outlooks and downgrades of Miami-Dade County's bonds have led County Commissioner Juan Zapata to seek revised budget policies that consider ratings impacts.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday tapped Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera to become his lieutenant governor.

New Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine wants to dismantle a $1.2 billion mixed-use development that includes renovating the city's aged convention center.

A bill abolishing the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority and replacing it with a regional the toll-road agency cleared a Florida Senate Committee.

Central Florida's Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority selected state Rep. Steve Precourt, R-Orlando, to be the agency's new director.

A suit before the Florida Supreme Court seeks an order compelling Gov. Rick Scott to appoint a lieutenant governor. The position's been vacant for nearly 10 months.