North Dakota

The Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project had a deadline Friday for bondholder consent to a settlement resolving construction disputes.

Bond proposals are included in recent budget proposals from the Minnesota and North Dakota governors, as the region's 2026 spending plans begin to take shape.

Multiple carbon capture projects are advancing across the Midwest, but the Trump administration may change the calculus around CCS and net zero goals.

North Dakota's Bismarck State College returned to the market, pricing $30 million of bonds, with proceeds used to finance the construction of an 80,000-square-foot athletic center.

This spring brings a bevy of school referendums in the Midwest. With inflation and property tax fatigue, voters may be increasingly reluctant to say yes.

The North Dakota Housing Finance Agency recently priced $189 million of bonds for its home mortgage finance program, a sector in which issuance has increased.

Some public colleges in the Midwest are facing budgetary squeezes paired with programming directives from state legislators, a departure from trends elsewhere.

Public sector employers are in a fierce competition with the private sector for workers and may be losing amid labor shortages and inflation.

Recent federal legislation marks the largest investment in carbon management in the history of the U.S., which is already a global leader in the space.

Properly designed public banks would be safer than private banks while promoting economic growth.

After dropping dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, energy severance tax revenue is soaring along with oil and gas prices.

The Public Finance Authority issue for the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Project sets the stage for the Corps of Engineers' future use of a P3 financing model.

The two systems began negotiations in January to transfer 14 CommonSpirit hospitals in Minnesota and North Dakota to Essentia.

Moody's says the coronvirus' economic impact adds to fiscal pressures on several of the state's cities dependent on oil and gas revenue

Municipal yields rose as much as five basis points on the long end, but the losses were not as pronounced as UST. Light dealer inventories and scarce secondary trading let munis outperform Treasuries.

Rolette County affirmed its commitment to make a July jail lease payment as Moody's reviews the impact of the temporary jail closure on the county's books.

After the unprecedented collapse an oil futures contract into negative territory, the leading oil producing states face budget uncertainty.

Fargo finance director Kent Costin said the downgrade was expected given the decline in construction activity in 2019.

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

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