Southeast

A federal permit improperly allows the Alabama Department of Transportation to begin work on the $5.4 billion “Northern Beltline” project, according to a federal lawsuit.

Jefferson County, Ala., said additional negotiations will be necessary with major creditors of the county’s debt-laden sewer system.

Georgia officials hailed the U.S. House’s passage of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act because it will further efforts to deepen the Savannah Harbor.

Tampa Bay Water, a regional supplier on Florida's mid-west coast, will pay more than $20.6 million to the engineering firm it sued over alleged design flaws in a reservoir.

BioNitrogen Holdings plans to build seven bond-financed plants using a proprietary biomass conversion process to make fertilizer in Louisiana and Florida.

New head of state highway officials group seeks national economic stability through sustainable federal transportation funding.

Early voting is under way in Miami-Dade County where voters are being asked to approve $830 million in general obligation bonds for the public Jackson Health System.

The restructuring plan proposed by bankrupt Jefferson County, Ala., is novel in public finance, and other defaulted issuers are using it, according to Moody's.

Moody's lowered the rating of Alabama State University to A3 from A2, and said the rating could drop further when the final results of a forensic audit are known.

Internal Revenue Service officials are taking a position in the tax dispute over $427.2 million of bonds issued by the Village Center Community Development District that they previously said they would not take, according to the CDD's lawyer.