Southeast

City of Atlanta and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority leaders will use the months ahead to persuade voters to support two half-cent sales tax increases for major transportation improvements.

Virginia is seeking a $200 million federal grant to help fund its $1.4 billion Atlantic Gateway mobility effort.

A South Carolina judge has indicated that he plans to side with Richland County in its fight over the release of 1-cent sales tax revenues frozen by the state Department of Revenue amid a probe into irregular spending.

A bill in the North Carolina General Assembly would ask voters to lower the income tax rate to 5.5% from 10%, a move that opponents say would restrict budget flexibility and jeopardize the state's triple-A ratings.

The outlook for the University of Louisville was changed to developing after Moody's Investors Service found that Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s dismissal of the board of trustees raised uncertainty about the university’s governance.

Louisiana lawmakers capped their third session of the year on Thursday adopting a fiscal 2017 budget with $300 million in cuts while failing to address a projected $200 million current-year deficit.

The small south Florida city of Opa-locka, recently designated by the state to be in a financial emergency, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the Miami Herald.

In a first-of-its-kind case, a federal judge hears arguments June 30 on motions to dismiss a challenge by two Florida counties of $1.75 billion in private activity bonds for the All Aboard Florida passenger train.

The Internal Revenue Service may soon revoke the tax-exempt status of a Georgia housing corporation that for three consecutive years failed to file information returns on a $7.81 million bond issuance in 2013.

With dozens of oil and gas company bankruptcies, energy producing states face a growing backlog of abandoned wells as revenue to fix the problems dwindles.