Texas

The Texas Department of Transportation plans to supply a hungry muni market with $2.6 billion of top-rated bonds in a series of first-quarter deals.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport plans to welcome the arrival of an Airbus A380 double-decker jumbo jet at a new gate in October.

Northside Independent School District has approved a $648.34 million bond election for May 10 for renovations and new schools.

Port of Houston Deputy executive director Roger Guenther moves into the top job after Leonard Waterworth ends his two-year tenure.

The federal Department of Transportation signs off on an $840 million loan to a seven-county toll road system around Houston.

The San Antonio Water System will reject controversial proposals from three private developers to pipe water to the city from as far away as 150 miles and go with desalination.

The hot Texas economy is spurring operators of the state's airports and seaports to provide new infrastructure to accommodate the growing state.

Cook Children's Hospital, the dominant provider of children's healthcare in Fort Worth, Texas, is planning its second expansion in five years with $175 million of bonds.

Texas' economy will continue to grow briskly in 2014 as state government keeps a tight lid on spending, according to experts at The Bond Buyer's Texas Public Finance Conference.

A bond panel's wish list for Arlington Independent School District in Texas would cost $663 million.

The thousands of airline flights cancelled this winter due to severe weather may affect some airports' revenues and cost budgets, Fitch Ratings said.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $12.84 million of unlimited tax school building bonds issued in 2010 by the Anahuac Independent School District in Texas as part of an examination of small governmental bond issues.

Westin Hotels & Resorts will operate a $90 million partly bond-finaned hotel that will adjoin a new convention and entertainment center in Irving, Texas.

Nearly $620 million of tax-exempt debt for a $2.3 billion Texas water pipeline is drawing a crowd in the tax-exempt market.

Nearly $1 billion of notes and bonds to be priced and placed soon will keep the Grand Parkway toll loop growing around the Houston metro area.

Travis County, Texas, will not call a vote on $300 million of bonds for a new courthouse until next year.

Houston is seeking to overturn a Texas law that limits its right to negotiate limits on firefighter pension contributions.

State District Judge John Dietz reopened testimony on Texas school funding Tuesday, nearly a year after his ruling that the state's formula was unconstitutional.