Nebraska

Moody's Investors Service said the uptick in prepaid gas volume reflects a wider spread between tax-exempt and taxable yields.

China's recently announced suspension of U.S. agricultural imports escalated trade-related risks to U.S. agriculture, said Fitch Ratings.

Municipal bond issuers in the Midwest recorded a healthy year-over-year volume gain, in contrast to flat nationwide numbers.

Petr, who has been with the firm since 1987, most recently served as chair of Kutak Rock's public finance department in Omaha.

The residents of Waverly, Hickman and rural Lancaster County, Neb., would join Lincoln drivers in paying an annual wheel tax to fund county road and bridge improvements under a newly unveiled proposal.

Omaha-Douglas County Building Commission will have to rely on additional rental payments from the city and county to pay for bonds.

Nebraska's largest school district has more than $770 million of unfunded pension liabilities after some pension fund investments turned sour.

Damage from the floodwaters will impact state and local governments and ripple through the region's economy.

Gov. Pete Ricketts, who won re-election last Tuesday, has said that expansion costs will be covered by existing revenue.

Voters in three states approved Medicaid expansion, highlighting dozens of ballot measures around the country that will impact budgets and credit.

Gage County had consulted a bankruptcy attorney, who told officials it wouldn't qualify for Chapter 9.

Agencies across the country said the case filed by a Florida utility could expose them to "unprecedented" federal oversight of public power contracts.

The three states are in the bottom of a ranking of state fiscal conditions by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Volume was off in eight of the region's 11 states in the wake of tax reform and the end of advance refundings.

Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota are vulnerable to a trade war, Moody's Investors Service says.

Voters approved Omaha Public Schools' $410 million bond referendum and another district's $510 million measure.

Failure at the ballot may require Omaha Public Schools to lean more on its general fund dollars for repairs needed to keep schools fully operational.

Employers in New York also are allowed to implement a 5% payroll tax as a way of paying some of their employees’ state income taxes.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $82.98 billion of debt last year, a 5% drop from 2016.

The governor wants to neutralize the effects of the new law to make it revenue-neutral for the state government.