Oklahoma

In a 2-1 vote, county commissioners approved an Oct. 8 competitive general obligation bond sale to keep funding a jail project amid escalating costs.

A state lawmaker is asking the court to invalidate a 2022 nearly $700 million bond sale due to inadequate audits by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

Bond sales in the eight-state region totaled $54.9 billion, trailing the nation with an 8.1% gain year-over-year as Texas issuance slipped 7.6%.

A flow of public dollars to private schools has raised credit concerns about public schools and spurred litigation in Southwest states.

Officials are considering selling more voter-approved bonds for the stalled project, which could be jumpstarted with a phased-in construction approach.

The city council voted unanimously to hold a special election on an 11-part GO bond proposition, which will be the largest in the city's history.

With big state incentives and tariff protection, a United Arab Emirates-based aluminum producer has pledged to build the first new U.S. smelter in decades.

Oklahoma can continue to collect income taxes from certain Native Americans in a case that threatened to cost the state millions of dollars in tax refunds.

Under the agreement, the NBA's Thunder will play for at least 25 years in an arena that will be largely financed by a sales tax revenue bond sale later this year.

A new law lifts the revenue bond cap for the Grand River Dam Authority to $3.6 billion from $1.41 billion