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.