Nevada

New money volume in the Far West was up 31.9% to $29.5 billion, while refunding volume rose a more modest 11%.

Moody's revised the outlook on Nevada's GOs and COPs to stable from negative.

Brightline Holdings will wait until 2022 to try again to finance a passenger train to Las Vegas from Southern California with tax-exempt bonds.

Arizona and neighboring states are preparing for the first mandatory cuts in water from the Colorado River after 20 years of drought.

Gov. Steve Sisolak opted to form a joint committee to study the idea, rather than proposing legislation this session.

The three mining tax proposals would require a constitutional amendment because the current tax cap is baked into the constitution.

The second bankruptcy of the Las Vegas Monorail was much smaller than the first, and bondholder Preston Hollow LLC is getting paid a full $22 million.

Clark County, Nevada's reserve draw, brought about by low hotel tax revenues, has no rating impact on the limited tax general obligation bonds, Moody's said.

California will give the private activity bond capacity granted to the high-speed rail project to affordable housing projects and other qualifying ventures.

Pricing was delayed for a $3.2 billion municipal bond deal to finance a passenger railroad between southern California and Las Vegas.