Northeast

Council Speaker Corey Johnson hints budget talks will go down to the wire.

The New Jersey governor is using an unexpected tax collection surge to boost his push to hike income tax rates for the highest earners.

Carl McCall, a former New York State comptroller and Democratic candidate for governor, reflects on what molded his many years of public service starting with enduring the challenges of growing up in a segregated Boston neighborhood to the recent experience of chairing the State University of New York Board of Trustees. Andrew Coen hosts.

Thirty-five local plans carry a combined unfunded liability of roughly $2.5 billion, a slight increase from last year, a state report says.

The issuer launched a new investor relations website in advance of its bond sale Tuesday.

Baltimore's $85 million general obligation bond deal is expected to sail into the municipal bond market without fallout from the resignation of the mayor.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission won a lawsuit by truckers over tolling, but still faces questions about how it will manage its $11.8 billion debt load.

Moody's Investors Service assigned a negative outlook to its Baa3 rating of Georgian Court University.

The sale of a city-owned broadband provider in Burlington, Vermont, concluded a tumultuous decade-long financial crisis that underscored the challenges of local governments trying to execute municipally run enterprises that compete against the private sector.

As the session enters the homestretch, lawmakers are divided over how to impose tolls on the state's highways and whether to do so.