North Dakota

A trade war would bring risks for states that do major business with Canada and Mexico, Fitch Ratings said after a seventh round of talks ended with no resolution.

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

Oil appears to be making a steady comeback, lifting prospects for the key producing states, according to Fitch Ratings.

North Dakota county loses investment grade as it prepares to open new jail.

Voters in the Hatton School District resoundingly approved a bond referendum to build a $6.3 million addition to the school in a special election Tuesday.

Approximately $900 million of costs would be financed through sales tax revenue bonds.

Voters in New Rockford-Sheyenne Public School District, N.D., approved a 20-year bond for structural repairs and air quality improvements Tuesday in a special election.

The $2 billion public-private partnership was put on hold after a federal judge issued an injunction.

Minnesota must grant permits before work on the Red River project continues, the ruling says.

The state passed a law to strengthen its school credit enhancement program, bringing Moody's upgrades to 58 school districts.

The district faces growing enrollment amid shrinking financial support.

The debt would help finance a project to divert Red River floods away from Fargo, N.D. and Morehead, Minn.

State government April income tax revenue fell 4%, in what may be an early sign of the "Trump Effect" on taxpayer behavior.

A quick glance at a city's debt is a little like reading its palm. Whether it's a new airport terminal, new sewer lines or payments on an events center, a community's finances indicate what it finds important and where it's headed.

Altru Health System wants to issue $115 million in bonds, some of which will go toward replacing the Main Clinic closed months ago because of a structural failure.

North Dakota lowered revenue expectations for the remainder of the current biennium and predicted lower tax receipts than previously thought for the next.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $87.2 billion of municipal bonds in 2016, a 23.4% year-over-year increase that was the biggest of any region.

Most of the oil states have gone into recession, S&P Global Ratings said in a new report.

Midwestern voters delivered mixed results on transportation proposals Tuesday while picking new governors and settling legislative races that stand to impact fiscal decisions in Illinois and Minnesota.

State and local governments and showing a wide variety of impacts from the collapse of the oil market that began two years ago, ratings analysts say.