Florida

Alexandra C. Cook has been named the new finance director for Broward County's Port Everglades Department in southeast Florida.

The Florida Cabinet last week approved the sale of $680 million of new and refunding bonds.

Landmark at Doral CDD bondholders won title to the land with a stalking horse bid of $67.5 million when no bidders came forward at auction.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday denied a request by Florida and Alabama to review the so-called tri-state water war case the two states are fighting against Georgia about water from the Lake Lanier reservoir.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed its D rating on the Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority's approximately $116.8 million in outstanding revenue bonds, which are in default.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs ceremonially signed footballs as a gesture of their plan to finance long-planned renovations at the Citrus Bowl football stadium, which was constructed as part of the Works Progress Administration in 1936.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Thursday to consider whether it will review the so-called water war case between Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

The governing board for Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corp. last week voted to hire a new president from the private insurance sector.

Tampa Bay Water's governing board Monday decided to move forward with an appeal in its suit challenging what it believes is a faulty reservoir design.

BRADENTON, Fla. - John Forney, a public finance advisor and specialist in insurance and catastrophe bonds at Raymond James | Morgan Keegan, is leaving the investment bank to become chief executive officer of a Florida-based property insurance company.

Florida’s three largest counties, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, are reporting their first annual increase in taxable property values since 2007.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s tax-exempt bond offering Tuesday was oversubscribed 2-1/2 times after receiving $3.8 billion in orders.

BRADENTON, Fla. – The Florida Department of Transportation is preparing to raise tolls to help finance $1.8 billion of road improvement projects.

Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will bring $1.25 billion of bonds and notes to market in a deal that could be upsized to $1.5 billion if conditions warrant.

Moody’s Investors Service on Monday downgraded Port St. Lucie, Fla.’s senior-lien utility revenue bonds to A1 from Aa3.

The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority, which oversees the 3.5-mile Garcon Point toll bridge in northwest Florida, has canceled its June 13 meeting.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Florida Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad this week signed an agreement with the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority to build the long-planned $1.9 billion Wekiva Parkway.

Part of a noise-mitigation plan for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has fallen apart after the Federal Aviation Administration disapproved portions of it.

The Federal Highway Administration last week approved the location of the $1.9 billion Wekiva Parkway, a 27-mile toll road that would complete a beltway around western metropolitan Orlando.

Don Glisson has been appointed to the board of governors of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp.