Northeast

New York City Comptroller John Liu said his office would audit contracts with Navigant after a state commission questioned the firm's dealings with LIPA.

Three new advanced manufacturing centers at community colleges across Connecticut will receive $7.3 million for facility and equipment upgrades that the state's Bond Commission approved.

Another candidate has entered the race for mayor in financially teetering Harrisburg, Pa. Air Force veteran Nate Curtis, 25, will run as an independent against Democratic nominee Eric Papenfuse, fellow independent Nevin Mindlin, and possibly city Controller Dan Miller on the Republican side.

New York City's revised $70 billion budget will include $250 million for storm resiliency and $58 million to the Housing Authority to offset federal sequester cuts.

The New York Senate and Assembly on early Friday morning passed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan for restructuring the Long Island Power Authority.

The New York State Senate confirmed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's appointment of Thomas Prendergast to serve as chairman and chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $20 billion storm-resistance plan for New York City consumes 430 pages. The list of questions about it runs pretty long, too.

The New Hampshire legislature is poised to adopt a two-year budget after a committee of legislators from both houses passed a $10.7 billion plan.

The New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority's $344 million sale of second resolution this week included $145 million of retail orders.

Rhode Island's top House Republican Brian Newberry argued in a letter to colleagues that the state should not pay back the 38 Studios bonds, despite Moody's threat of a GO downgrade.