Northeast

Write-downs on two major U.S. public-private partnerships led to the company decision, Skanska’s president said.

New York’s mass transit crisis has prompted some transportation advocates to say the city would be better off taking back subway and bus operations from the state-run MTA.

U.S. District Judge Juan Sánchez gave Ed Pawowski the maximum sentence for his conviction on 47 charges related to a pay-for-play scheme.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Vermont to Aa1, and downgraded other credits that are notched off the state's bond rating.

The debt issuance by Worcester, Massachusetts, to build a minor-league baseball stadium will probably not affect the city’s credit quality, according to Moody's.

Funding a major capital program increasingly with debt is a big challenge, said finance director Robert Foran.

Moody's Investors Service lowered its outlook for the county's Aa1 rating.

Next month Maine voters will be asked to borrow $106 million for the state's transportation infrastructure, adding to hundreds of millions of dollars in debt the state has taken on in recent years to prop up its underfunded highway budget.

California and New York City are showing us the path forward, as they often do, in the face of the new limits on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

A new law takes effect Nov. 1 to allow New Jersey to collect sales tax on products shipped from out of state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling.