Northeast

New Jersey’s 23-cent gas tax hike, and its offsetting tax cuts in other areas, will help the state’s current 2017 operating budget at the expense of raising budgetary pressure for 2018 and beyond, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Massachusetts Treasurer Deborah Goldberg has banned Wells Fargo from its list of approved underwriters for one year, citing the fake-accounts scandal,

Education is potentially the most important public service to suffer from the $1.7 trillion pension funding crisis, said a Manhattan Institute report.

The New Jersey Transit’s fiscal management and safety infrastructure will be scrutinized at New Jersey Senate hearings in the wake of a Sept. 29 Hoboken, N.J. train crash that killed one woman.

Transit advocates see Baltimore's proposed Red Line as key part of multi-state rail link.

The credit quality of New York State’s local governments and school districts has stayed stable the last eight years, as rising real estate values made up for a slow economic recovery and increased pension costs, according to S&P Global Ratings.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing for automatic tolling at Metropolitan Transportation Authority-operated bridges and tunnels in hopes of echoing other states that have eased traffic congestion through similar strategies.

Pittsburgh is poised to leave state fiscal oversight by 2019, said Mayor Bill Peduto.

Laurie Martin is deputy chief investment officer for Connecticut’s $30 billion Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, state Treasurer Denise Nappier announced.

A proposed $3 billion budget for New York's Nassau County contains nearly $115 million in risky revenue assumptions that could create a "sizable" deficit, according to county comptroller George Maragos.