Southeast

On the eve of pricing $1.75 billion of bonds for a privately owned intercity passenger train system, its Florida developers introduced Brightline as the name of the new service.

Tennessee’s cash-funded transportation system fails to keep pace with billions in backlogged needs, and residents must decide how to tackle the problem, Gov. Bill Haslam said Monday.

Raymond James continues its expansion in California with the recent hiring of veteran education banker Charlie Feinstein in San Francisco.

Florida's second-most populous county and one of its tiniest cities bucked the official state position on carbon emissions by joining a coalition supporting the federal government's Clean Power Plan.

In Tuesday's election, Mississippi voters returned incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Bryant to office while Kentucky voters chose a member of the GOP to succeed their term-limited Democratic governor.

Miami Beach hopes to attract investor’s appetites for yield in the coming weeks with a $620 million, multi-faceted deal to finance the city’s long-planned convention center expansion.

Agreements settling construction disputes over new nuclear units in Georgia and South Carolina are positive credit factors for the public and private owners of the projects, according to Moody's Investors Service.

In striking down a class-action union appeal Nov. 2, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Atlanta did not violate the state's constitution when the City Council reformed pension benefits in 2011.

A forensic inquiry into Jacksonville, Fla.’s Police and Fire Pension Fund says poor management and the lack of transparency by the fund’s board are among reasons for at least $370 million in losses.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Alan C. Stout scheduled a hearing for Dec. 9 to decide if Hillview, Ky. is qualified to continue through the bankruptcy process.