Southeast

Pike County's “very weak” economy, budget performance and management led S&P Global Ratings to lower its ratings.

City officials have big hopes for the coming decade, including building new defenses against Norfolk's ever-worsening flooding and redeveloping a 200-acre swath east of downtown that contains aging public housing communities.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are the first states to have created charitable funds that taxpayers can contribute to in order to claim a charitable deduction in lieu of paying state and local taxes.

The $139 million refunding saved Alabama’s most populous county $12.35 million in debt-service costs.

The IRS notice warns that federal law, not state law, controls how payments for federal income tax purposes are characterized.

The Walton Family Foundation provided seed funds to create two “innovative” financing vehicles for charter school facilities.

Lawmakers in the 27-member Florida delegation in the House are divided about whether more private-activity bonds should be used for Brightline's 235-mile passenger rail line.

Material improvements in spending flexibility led Fitch to give Alabama’s most populous county a two-notch upgrade.

Service sector companies saw strong growth in May, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Manufacturing growth in the central Atlantic region was “robust” in May, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.