Northeast

Leaders of New York's Suffolk County are pitching a $300 million Long Island Innovation Zone to enhance the region's transportation network and create economic development.

New York City officials deem a social impact bond program that fell short of its desired outcome to be successful because it allowed them to try something new at no cost to taxpayers.

A report co-authored by Harry Markopolos, who offered unheeded early warnings of Bernard Madoff's fraud, said the pension fund of Greater Boston transit workers may be overestimating its value by up to $470 million.

The new spokesman for Atlantic City's emergency manager says all options remain on the table for the troubled city, including bankruptcy.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed the $30 billion fiscal 2016 budget lawmakers had passed, saying it ignored such core issues as structural imbalance, school funding and rising property taxes.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale called for a series of funding and transparency measures to tackle local pension underfunding.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has joined a crowded 2016 presidential race as the 14th Republican candidate and in his official announcement Tuesday morning highlighted financial leadership delivered in Trenton that he would bring to Washington, D.C.

Connecticut's legislature after midnight approved a revised $40 billion biennial budget that rolled back some of the business taxes to which major corporations within the state had objected.

Spending increases in New York City's $78.5 billion budget merit a good, hard look, according to a nonpartisan budget watchdog organization.

A 4% tax increase Philadelphia approved to generate $50 million for Philadelphia schools is a credit positive for the struggling district, but not large enough to be a long-term solution, according to Moody's.