Texas

Dan Patrick, the frontrunner in the race for Texas lieutenant governor, has announced plans to raise sales taxes to offset a reduction in property tax rates.

Texas officials like DeWitt County, Texas, Judge Daryl Fowler are riding a boom from oil and gas drilling but know from experience that a "Texas Miracle" can quickly turn into a mirage.

Moody's Investors Service shifted its outlook on Texas Health Resources to "developing" from "positive" after its Dallas hospital's handling of the nation's first Ebola case.

Four years after its launch, the $2.1 billion North Tarrant Express is open to traffic and providing a financial model for other projects in the state, developers say.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reached a settlement with Houston-area financial advisor R. Craig Rathmann, accused of colluding with RBC Capital Markets to limit competition on bond deals for municipal utility districts.

More than four decades after Southwest Airlines landed at Love Field, the Dallas airport is finally unshackled from the Wright Amendment that minimized its rivalry with Dallas-Fort Worth International.

More than four decades after Southwest Airlines landed at Love Field, the Dallas airport is finally unshackled from the Wright Amendment that minimized its rivalry with Dallas-Fort Worth International.

Texas sales tax revenue rose 7.9% in September to $2.17 billion, marking the 54th straight month of increases, but concerns about the oil and gas industry are beginning to emerge.

Conroe Independent School District in the northern suburbs of Houston sees strong demand for $150 million of bonds that include refunding and new money.

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, one of the largest and fastest-growing in Texas, was upgraded by Moody's Investors Service as it headed to market with $463 million of new money and refunding bonds.

While few high school students are aware of how their schools were financed, a select group at Sidney Lanier High School in San Antonio took up an invitation to watch a bond pricing first-hand.

The high-plains city of Lubbock, Texas, won't ask voters to approve $134 million of bonds, as a majority of the city council agreed that the timing was wrong.

Chicago-based William Blair & Co. is making a big push into the Texas market, snaring a five-member banking team from Robert W. Baird & Co. led by Ajay Thomas who will take over the firm's public finance banking group and help guide a national expansion.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced settlement of an investigation of anticompetitive activities involving underwriting fees paid by municipal utility districts in the Houston area.

Fort Worth Transportation Authority may begin construction in 2016 of its long-anticipated $810 million rail line to DFW Airport.

Texas Democratic governor candidate Wendy Davis accuses Republican opponent Greg Abbott of covering up misuse of the Texas Enterprise Fund as attorney general.

The Texas Enterprise Fund administered by recently indicted Gov. Rick Perry provided $222 million to companies and organizations that never applied for the money or promised to create jobs, a state audit finds.

Most Texans want to increase state spending on transportation infrastructure without raising taxes, according to a new statewide poll.

The University of North Texas should have known that it was receiving excessive reimbursement from the state and should repay at least $75.6 million over 10 years, according to a state audit.

The Texas Transportation Commission expects to price $1.1 billion of general obligation bonds in October, about six months later than originally scheduled.