Northeast

Jameson Doig, author of a book about the history of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said the agency has never experienced a controversy as huge as the Bridgegate scandal.

Gov. Deval Patrick submitted his final budget to Massachusetts lawmakers Wednesday, proposing a $36 billion spending plan for fiscal 2015 that would increase spending nearly 5%.

Contracting sales tax receipts are a credit negative for New York counties outside the metropolitan New York City area, Moody's Investors Service said.

The Massachusetts pension reserves investment trust fund returned 15.2% in calendar 2013, marking an investment gain of $7.9 billion, according to the Pension Reserves Investment Management board.

The city of Buffalo, N.Y.'s finances are improving, but challenges remain, according to a report released by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority sold $946 million of future tax secured fixed-rate subordinate bonds.

Two lynchpin bond sales under the Harrisburg, Pa., recovery plan priced within the expected range when receivership officials filed the plan in August, according to a status report.

Boston is weighing a push for Massachusetts casino host community status even though voters in one neighborhood rejected one proposal.

New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has found that 13% of New York school districts are fiscally distressed.

State officials filed an application Thursday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to vacate the receivership for capital city Harrisburg.