Georgia

WellStar Health System expanded its hospital network to 11 from five after Friday’s closing on the acquisition of five hospitals from for-profit Tenet Health, and a merger with nonprofit West Georgia Health, but its ratings suffered.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority could pursue a portion of its $8 billion expansion plan under terms of a bill Georgia legislators passed shortly before adjourning.

Georgia saw state revenues jump a whopping 24.9% in February, although state officials said Internal Revenue Service security breaches helped skew the results by delaying refunds.

Improvement in Atlanta’s fiscal health led Moody's Investors Service to upgrade the city’s general obligation debt to Aa1 from Aa2.

In the Southeast, pent-up need for capital and low interest rates translated into a five-year high for bond issuance in 2015.

Georgia's recently enacted supplemental state budget dedicates $750 million to transportation projects.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s 5% budget increase for fiscal 2017 allots more funds for transportation and $850 million in bonds for capital projects.

Georgia State University teamed up with Atlanta-based Carter & Associates LLC to negotiate the purchase of Turner Field for a multi-use redevelopment project including a football stadium.

Standard & Poor's dropped Georgia's Oconee Regional Medical Center further into junk territory citing default as a "virtual certainty."

Georgia expects to save $421 million reconstructing a critical intersection in Atlanta by entering into a public-private partnership with North Perimeter Contractors.

Agreements settling construction disputes over new nuclear units in Georgia and South Carolina are positive credit factors for the public and private owners of the projects, according to Moody's Investors Service.

In striking down a class-action union appeal Nov. 2, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Atlanta did not violate the state's constitution when the City Council reformed pension benefits in 2011.

A bond investor’s suspicions triggered a municipal bond trustee’s firing of a vice president but the question remains: what happened to more than $2 million?

The Atlanta Streetcar is conducting a national search for an executive director, and has named former AECOM/URS Corp. transit manager Keith Jones as interim director.

Cobb County, Ga., plans to competitively bid $372.55 million of AAA-rated taxable bonds on Tuesday to finance the Atlanta Braves stadium.

Issuers in the Southeast sold $41.56 billion of bonds in the first half of 2015, an 85% increase in year-over-year volume fueled by refundings and a slight uptick in new-money sales.

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Clayton County, Ga.'s only hospital is a favorable credit factor for the county, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The Georgia Supreme Court Monday ruled that $368 million of bonds to finance the Atlanta Braves' $672 million baseball stadium were properly validated by a lower court.

The Atlanta City Council approved a $1.9 billion budget for fiscal 2016 budget without tapping reserves.

Georgia secured financing rates as low as 1.21% on a multi-faceted competitive GO bond offering Tuesday.