Florida

The IRS completed an examination into $153 million of bonds issued by Miami in 2007 without a change in tax exempt status.

Orlando, Fla., is planning to sell as much as $304.5 million early next year, part of which will provide partial funding for a Major League Soccer-ready stadium.

Miami and its former budget director Michael Boudreaux are urging a federal district court to dismiss the securities fraud charges the Securities and Exchange Commmision filed against them in July for disclosure failures.

Fitch downgraded the rating of Florida's Citrus Memorial Hospital to B-minus from B after the embattled hospital paid off some bank bonds early.

Tampa Bay Water, a regional supplier on Florida's mid-west coast, will pay more than $20.6 million to the engineering firm it sued over alleged design flaws in a reservoir.

BioNitrogen Holdings plans to build seven bond-financed plants using a proprietary biomass conversion process to make fertilizer in Louisiana and Florida.

Early voting is under way in Miami-Dade County where voters are being asked to approve $830 million in general obligation bonds for the public Jackson Health System.

Internal Revenue Service officials are taking a position in the tax dispute over $427.2 million of bonds issued by the Village Center Community Development District that they previously said they would not take, according to the CDD's lawyer.

The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund should be less reliant on using municipal bonds to pay its bills in the future, and work on decreasing its exposure, the advisory board was told.

Florida will support Mississippi's federal lawsuit protesting large increases in national flood insurance premiums with a "friend of the court" brief.

Standard & Poor's dropped the rating of G-Star School of the Arts, a Florida charter school focusing on film and entertainment, to B-plus from BB.

A federal judge has issued an order for mediation between the City of Miami, Fla. and the Securities and Exchange Commission, a step the SEC said is required for its securities fraud case against the city and its former budget director.

Florida's Citrus Memorial Hospital is poised to be sold to a for-profit chain, and redeem its junk bonds with proceeds from the deal.

A grassroots group is asking Florida Gov. Rick Scott to delay further legal action against Georgia over water use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin.

Broward County plans to target south Florida's retail investors in selling $434.2 million of bonds for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport's $2.3 billion capital program.

Florida filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking an injunction from the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Georgia's "unchecked and growing consumption of water," state officials said.

Bond lawyers were wrong to suggest that South Miami’s disclosure of a bond-related tax settlement with the Internal Revenue Service triggered Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action.

Build America Mutual Assurance Co., the start-up mutual municipal bond insurer, is open for business in Florida.

For the first time in four years, Miami has a budget without declaring a fiscal emergency but the city faces legal hurdles, including a federal lawsuit filed by the SEC.

Florida's projected $845 million surplus in fiscal 2015 could erode because of action on the federal budget and debt ceiling, state lawmakers learned Wednesday.