Southeast

About 500 of Raymond James' workforce will be cut because of a decline in earnings due to low interest rates and the pandemic-induced economic downturn.

Billions of public funds have been spent cleaning up the bay, but two lawsuits say those efforts are endangered because the EPA failed to do its job.

In a long-range revenue forecast, a state economist told lawmakers that it could take two or three years for Florida’s hard-hit tourism industry to recover.

In the first two months of the fiscal year, Georgia saw state tax collections, which support the state general fund, increase by 12.4% year-over-year.

The public-private partnership Alabama is using to build three new prisons is estimated to cost nearly $2.64 billion over 30 years, up from $900 million.

Declining tourist taxes, which support the bond-financed Orange County Convention Center's expansion, led officials to suspend the design work on the project.

Georgia Power said in its latest report for the Plant Vogtle project that more than 800 workers have contracted COVID-19, and most have recovered.

The Florida State Board of Administration Finance Corp. deal was upsized by $1 billion on a day that gave muni buyers a wide variety of paper to choose from.

Briefs from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the passenger railroad argue that private activity bonds for the Florida project were allocated correctly.

September got off to a good start as buyers had their pick of a variety of new issues, which priced into a stable market environment.