Virginia

Amazon's decision spurred debate about public incentives to corporations, infrastructure and housing, and how it all weighs on municipal credit.

Retail giant Amazon announced separate joint second headquarters in New York City and Arlington, Virginia.

The Virginia Public School Authority will sell the first bonds since the state put up new dedicated websites for investors to access information.

While the impacts to the Carolinas are still being determined, one expert says the lessons learned from catastrophic events like Florence can be mitigated.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's composite index of manufacturing activity rose in September.

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.