Northeast

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook to stable from positive for Wilkes-Barre, Pa.’s GO bonds, citing weaker liquidity.

A Dec. 19 deadline for Atlantic City to pay the Borgata $62 million in tax refunds has passed and now the casino giant is asking a judge to order the payment.

The New York State Gaming Commission voted Monday to issue licenses for three planned Upstate casinos that were first selected a year ago.

New York City will end the fiscal year with a $963 million surplus, or $828 million more than Mayor Bill de Blasio's estimate, said the watchdog Independent Budget Office.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority issued more than $400 million of bonds in 2015, including a $30 million sale in December backed by strong retail demand.

An emphatic weekend rejection of a pension-overhaul bill seen as pivotal to a budget compromise sent Pennsylvania's legislative leaders scurrying again.

Atlantic City, N.J. was kept on credit watch negative Friday by Standard & Poor’s pending a resolution of Gov. Chris Christie’s conditional vetoes of a rescue package approved by the legislature last June.

New Jersey tax collections are up near the midway point of the 2016 fiscal year, but still lag behind projected revenue growth, according to the State Department of Treasury.

As Michael Nutter's eight-year Philadelphia mayoral run winds down, his city is in far better fiscal shape than when he entered City Hall in January 2008.

Pennsylvania House Republican leaders told Gov. Tom Wolf they would push his budgetary tax package to the floor if he can show he has a majority of votes.