Northeast

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo proposed a $9.3 billion budget that calls for two years of free tuition at public colleges for in-state students.

New Jersey's Department of Community Affairs hired Atlantic City business administrator Jason Holt to assist in its state takeover of the distressed city.

The New York City Council approved a bill that requires the watchdog Independent Budget Office to review city-issued economic development tax breaks.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $152 billion budget proposal late Tuesday that would extend a set-to-expire millionaire's tax to preserve $4 billion in revenue over the next two years.

The New York City Council voted unanimously to approve an expansion of the DUMBO Business Improvement District at a meeting at City Hall on Wednesday. The full council vote on the bill came after the Finance Committee unanimously passed it in the morning.

Capital Hartford is veering out of control toward bankruptcy and needs help from a state already wobbly, said a Manhattan Institute report on Connecticut’s poorest cities.

The MTA’s tentative deal with New York transit employees provides some certainty while ignoring spiraling health-care and pension costs untouched, say muni bond observers.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio picked Maria Torres-Springer to be the city's new Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, replacing the departing Vicki Been. Separately, he named James Patchett President and CEO of the NYC Economic Development Corp.

Green bonds are a tool more issuers use to finance various means of purifying drinking water and buffering against rising seas.

The Delaware River and Bay Authority has tapped a former Delaware finance chief to lead the bi-state transportation agency.