North Dakota

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.

The issuers of the Midwest sold $41 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2016, spurred by increased new money issuance, according to Thomson Reuters data.

A $2 billion flood diversion project in North Dakota and Minnesota is the first P3 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Oil price volatility continues to take a toll on bond ratings in Williston, North Dakota, where S & P Global Ratings lowered its rating on $44.5 million of public safety sales tax revenue bonds.

Williston, North Dakota’s sales tax debt took a six-notch downgrade to junk amid continued oil and price declines.

State budget conditions vary widely as of late fiscal 2016, with the overall picture getting better while states with less diversified economies face significant stress, Standard & Poor's said Wednesday.

While the key oil production states of Oklahoma, North Dakota and California have all been hit hard by the drop in crude oil prices, the impact varies at both the state and local government level, Moody’s Investors Service says.

The outlook on North Dakota's issuer credit rating was lowered to negative, as Moody's Investors Service took note of economic and budget struggles triggered by falling crude oil prices.

Severe declines in oil and gas prices that have damaged the economy Williston, N.D. led Moody’s Investors Service to downgrade the Bakken Shale city to speculative grade.

North Dakota lost its Standard & Poor's triple-A rating because of the impact of oil price volatility on the state's economy.

North Dakota will tap the state's the state's $572 million budget reserve to the tune of $497 million to help cover a $1 billion shortfall in revenue due to a drop in oil crude prices. The state also intends to implement across-the-board budget cuts.