Virginia

The region's volume numbers were supported by favorable market conditions that drove several large gas prepay deals.

S&P Global Ratings revised the state's outlook to stable from negative, and Moody’s says the budget's Medicaid expansion is credit positive for hospitals.

The plan would raise power costs, but analysts say municipal utilities and energy cooperatives can absorb the increases or pass them on to customers.

City officials have big hopes for the coming decade, including building new defenses against Norfolk's ever-worsening flooding and redeveloping a 200-acre swath east of downtown that contains aging public housing communities.

Service sector companies saw strong growth in May, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Manufacturing growth in the central Atlantic region was “robust” in May, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Employers in New York also are allowed to implement a 5% payroll tax as a way of paying some of their employees’ state income taxes.

The question of whether to cover Virginians under the Affordable Care Act prevented a budget from passing during the regular session.

Like a homeowner making extra mortgage payments when times are good, King George County is looking to pay down its debt before times get bad — and one of its primary sources of revenue is no longer available.

A federal judge dismissed a suit over Buena Vista’s bonds, but an appeal will put the city's moral obligation pledge on trial again.

Issuers across the Southeast sold $68.5 billion of bonds in 2017, a 5.8% year-over-year decrease.

The ratings withdrawal impacts two Indiana bonds and various New York, and Virginia local government issues.

The elimination of private activity bonds would remove a financing tool that supports many public private partnerships.

The referendum asks voters in Mecklenburg County, N.C.’s to approve bonds for schools.

Regional bond issuance slipped by 31% in the first half and volume was down sharply in Florida.

Toll lane partner Transurban will contribute $15 million per year to local transportation projects.

Buena Vista was denied access to state borrowing programs because the city failed to pay its golf course debt.

Per-mile road charge for autonomous vehicles seen as easier to implement than a higher gasoline tax.

Newport News' Industrial Development Authority on Friday approved issuing $50 million of revenue bonds on behalf of Riverside Healthcare Association so that the hospital group can fund $130 million of renovations and new projects at its facilities in Newport News and Gloucester and Essex counties.

Revenue panel recommends higher taxes in Virginia to fund transit maintenance and expansion.