Southeast

Georgia has chosen a team of Atlanta and Florida contractors to build the $840 million Northwest Corridor project to relieve severe congestion in the Atlanta region.

Large federal flood insurance rate increases starting Oct. 1 threaten to derail the slowly improving economy in Southeastern Gulf coast states, said regional officials.

Louisiana can issue $800 million of state GO bonds over the next two years without busting a constitutional cap on debt service.

Columbia, S.C.’s $750 million sewer plan driven by a federal consent decree is a credit negative, Moody's says. More decrees in the Southeast are likely, the EPA warns.

With Southeast issuers facing big-ticket costs to rehab water and sewer systems under federal court orders, doubt about the future of munis is raising concern.

North Carolina has cleared the first of two legal challenges over a $215.8 million project to replace the aging Bonner Bridge in the state’s Outer Banks.

Louisiana Bond Commission will decide on $37 million of sales tax bonds for a retail development in Livingston Parish.

Jennifer Montero will be the new chief financial officer of Florida's state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and John Rollins will be the new chief risk officer.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the operator of Miami-Dade County, Fla.'s largest hospital with defrauding investors by failing to disclose its financial woes prior to an $83 million bond offering.

Jefferson County, Ala.'s bankruptcy attorney said a report by Moody's showing that the county's bondholders will have lower recoveries than the county anticipates is "unfair."