Washington

Public Utility District #1 of Klickitat County, Wash. is going to sell $79 million of revenue and refunding bonds for its electrical infrastructure.

President Obama signed Congress's latest transportation funding extension while criticizing lawmakers for the short-term HTF fix.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board late Friday filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission revised content outlines to its qualification exams for municipal fund securities limited principals, municipal securities representatives, and municipal securities principals that will bring the tests in line with recent MSRB rule changes.

Bankruptcies in Detroit, Jefferson County, Ala., and three California cities helped spawn a new breed of activist judges, who may use Chapter 9 cases as the platform not just for reorganizing municipal debt, but also for helping set the stage for turning distressed cities around.

The Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority in Washington State is planning to sell nearly $1 billion of green bonds Aug. 4 to pay for its mass transit system and for possible refunding purposes.

The developer of the All Aboard Florida private passenger train system plans to quickly issue $1.75 billion of private activity bonds after approval of the deal.

The $8 billion, three-month extension of the Highway Trust Fund avoids a project shutdown in August.

Credits of the U.S. publicly owned airport sector and the crucial role of airport management are undervalued by the major ratings agencies despite their blemish-proof record, Kroll Bond Rating Agency said in a new report.

"Detroit's a much better credit than it was two years ago," its former emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, told a municipal bond market group.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has become chair of the National Governors Association for 2015-2016 and has unveiled an initiative to highlight governors' innovative solutions to crucial programs.

House plans to leave for a long recess Wednesday after voting on a 90-day extension of federal highway funding.

Pension burdens increased in fiscal 2013 for 31 of the 50 local governments with the most debt outstanding in that year, Moody's Investors Service said in a new report.

Revenue offsets in the Senate's six-year transportation funding bill are $1 billion short of proposed general fund transfers.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board revised its three online information facilities to add references to the self-regulator's core operational hours and highlight the 24/7 availability of a number of the systems' functions.

A coalition of state and city finance officials led by Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner wants the SEC to require greater transparency from PE firms that manage public pension funds.

Washington state will be among the biggest beneficiaries of Medicaid changes under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings

Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., and Sen. David Vitter, R-La., have introduced bipartisan disaster tax relief bills that include several bond provisions.

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a bipartisan, modified, two-year tax extenders bill that includes several provisions relating to bonds and Puerto Rico.

Senate Republican leaders are working on a multiyear transportation bill that would resolve the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund by dedicating roughly $40 billion of additional revenue to it from a variety of sources.

The Senate Finance Committee is pressing Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for positions on Puerto Rico, including whether it supports giving the troubled territory the ability to allow its public entities to file for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9.