Texas

Texas is trying new ideas in infrastructure transportation funding to keep up with demand from a growing population.

With the future of the Windstorm Insurance Association in doubt, Texas is preparing to issue $500 million for the program that protects property owners in the coastal region.

San Antonio Water System's board will consider a private provider's $3 billion water pipeline proposal after negotiations on the deal were completed.

Texas sales tax revenues for August rose 7.5% to a record $2.57 billion, according to state Comptroller Susan Combs.

Alvin Community College District in the outskirts of the Houston metro area saw its Moody's Investors Service Rating downgraded to Aa3 from Aa2 after years of operating deficits.

An oversight committee has raised questions about Fort Worth Independent School District’s use of $4.5 million to buy real estate.

Amid concerns about a long-term drought, the Texas Water Development Board authorized $250 million of bonds for a proposed Lower Colorado River Authority's reservoir.

San Antonio voters will get to decide the future of light rail next May in a charter election approved by the City Council.

Texas A&M University regents have approved $115 million of bond funding for renovation of nine dormitories serving the military Corps of Cadets.

The Municipal Advisory Council of Texas is allowing issuers to post their IRMA representations on its website to help obtain information from financial services firms without violating Securities and Exchange Commission's municipal advisor rule.

Texas voters will decide in November on a constitutional amendment that could boost state highway spending by $1.7 billion a year.

Combined proposals from Texas issuers in November come to about $6.6 billion, with Austin leading the way with about $1 billion.

A seven-member panel studying high-speed rail service in north Texas plans to seek federal funding to begin development of a line between Austin and Fort Worth.

The Texas system for financing public schools remains in violation of the state constitution even after lawmakers restored some of the $5.4 billion cut in the 2011 session, state district court judge John Dietz ruled Thursday.

Voters in the Texarkana, Texas, Independent School District will decide whether to issue $30 million of bonds to build a new school.

Texas earned record low interest rates on its $5.4 billion sale of tax and revenue anticipation notes on Aug. 26, Comptroller Susan Combs said.

After winning strong support from voters in its last bond election, Houston Independent School District will issue $350 million of variable-rate debt that carries triple-A ratings on two levels.

Attorneys for Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that an investigation of how his donors won contracts from a state cancer research fund did not motivate him to veto funding for the investigators.

Two school districts in the Houston area will account for more than $1 billion of bonds on the November ballot after their boards approved calling for voter support of the measures.

A state fee on so-called "small tobacco" companies that were not part of a 1998 settlement with states' attorneys general is unconstitutional, a Texas appeals court ruled.