Missouri

Missouri’s transportation chief warned lawmakers that state lacks funds to rebuild aging roads and bridges.

Kansas City, Missouri heads into the market with a nearly $200 million new money and refunding sanitary- sewer system revenue deal Wednesday as the city chips away at needed infrastructure upgrades and its $4.5 billion overflow control program.

The Los Angeles Rams' planned stadium in Inglewood, Calif. is a credit positive for the city, Moody's Investors Service said.

The St. Louis Rams beat out two other National Football League franchises and won the league’s permission to relocate to the Los Angeles area, where they plan to build a stadium in Inglewood.

Missouri will go ahead with planned road work with unexpected jump in gas tax revenues and a five-year extension of federal highway funding.

The National Football League confirmed that the Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams and the San Diego Chargers all submitted applications to relocate to the Los Angeles area.

Missouri officials are waiting for the National Football League to decide if the St. Louis Rams can relocate despite a $1 billion stadium financing package designed to keep the team from leaving.

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District board signed off on a rate hike and sending a $900 million bonding authorization to voters on the April 5 ballot.

Ferguson, Missouri’s rating has sunk further into speculative grade territory as the city’s struggle to recover from a controversial 2014 police shooting continues to batter its once healthy balance sheet.

Standard & Poor's raised St. Louis’s parking revenue bonds by one notch as the credit profile received a boost from a recent rate increase.

Improving operating margins helped win Missouri-based Mercy Health a stable outlook from Moody's Investors Service.

Missouri has turned east to New Hampshire for a new head of transportation.

Investors holding about $27 million of bonds issued for a failed sucralose plant in Moberly, Missouri have reached settlements with the financial firms they sued in state court, weeks after a federal class-action case was settled.

St. Louis-based retail stalwart Edward Jones will drop its negotiated public finance underwriting business at the end of the year.

Distribution of an $8.25 million legal settlement fund for investors in a failed Missouri sucralose plant is expected by the end of the year in a class action suit against underwriter Morgan Keegan and law firm Armstrong Teasdale.

Standard & Poor’s has lowered St. Anthony’s Medical Center by two notches to A-minus over dents in its operating performance.

St. Louis’ public finance community will join with the friends and family of Ivy D. Neyland-Pinkston in a celebration of life gathering Saturday to honor the longtime deputy comptroller for finance and development.

Ferguson, Missouri fired back at Moody’s Investors Service for its steep downgrade to junk, accusing the rating agency of being unwilling to give it more time to provide information that would offer a fuller picture.

Ferguson, Mo. lost its investment-grade rating Thursday when Moody's Investors Service dropped its rating four notches in a sign of the financial fallout from the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.

A federal class action lawsuit settlement between a group of bondholders that invested in a failed Missouri sucralose plant and the financial firms involved in the $39 million bond deal is nearing final approval.