Texas

After years of debate and controversy, the city council for the Dallas suburb of Irving approved building a $166 million entertainment center that has put the city's triple-A rating at risk.

All 40 replacement or rebuilt schools in Houston Independent School District's $1.89 billion bond program will meet strict environmental guidelines.

The San Antonio Water System will need to add about $492 million to its capital plans to upgrade leaky sewers under a $1.1 billion settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, officials said.

The Texas House and Senate are moving toward final approval of an $800 million transportation funding measure

Katy Independent School District may ask voters for bonds to fund a $68 million football stadium.

Austin Independent School District, Texas, can go ahead with plans to issue $490 million of GO bonds after judge says May ballot met legal requirements.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday signed a bill creating a new university and medical school in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley by merging two existing University of Texas branches.

The Dallas County Hospital District lost its triple-A rating from Fitch Ratings Friday as construction of a $1 billion replacement for Parkland Hospital neared completion.

San Antonio and Bexar County, partners on several major projects, plan to issue a combined $553 million of general obligation bonds in two separate deals this week.

Texas sales tax revenue in June rose 9.1% year over year to $2.17 billion, state Comptroller Susan Combs said last week.

A bill that would provide tuition revenue bonds for 62 construction projects for Texas college and university campuses won a House committee's approval, despite the fact that outgoing Gov. Rick Perry has not added the issue to the call for the legislature's second special session of the year.

Standard & Poor's raised the credit rating on the troubled North Forest Independent School District to AA-plus from its previous junk-bond rating of B after the district's annexation by the Houston Independent School District.

Texas' longest-serving Gov. Rick Perry will not seek a fourth term in 2014, he told supporters in San Antonio Monday. He didn't indicate whether he plans a second run for president.

A citizens advisory panel has recommended a $252.6 million GO bond referendum for Alvin Independent School District, Texas.

Texas lawmakers will consider highway funding measures when the second special session of the year reconvenes July 9.

Public hearings will begin this month in Fort Worth, Texas, to get voter input on the city's $293 million GO bond election set for May 2014.

The Grand Parkway Transportation Corp. is preparing to price $2.86 billion of toll revenue bonds to extend a planned 184-mile loop around the Houston metro area.

Austin, Texas, voters will likely vote in November on up to $65 million of general obligation bonds for affordable housing

Gov. Rick Perry challenged Democrats to another special session fight, placing the divisive issue of abortion in the same call with funding for the state's transportation system.

The Austin, Texas City Council may opt for a November election on $65 million of general obligation bonds for affordable housing.