Southeast

Florida’s Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority will seek a new director after a flap between board members about decisions, including the resignation of the CFO.

Miami-Dade County is preparing the first bonds for a $1 billion capital improvement program at PortMiami to prepare for larger ships to arrive through the Panama Canal.

Tennessee has the highest combined state and local rate of 9.44%, a Tax Foundation study said Wednesday.

The Virginia Department of Transportation and the Elizabeth River tunnels' private partner are asking the Virginia Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling that planned tolls for the project and provisions of the state's transportation P3 law are unconstitutional.

Jefferson County, Ala.'s attorney says that rising interest rates make it "almost inevitable" that the plan to refinance defaulted sewer debt must be renegotiated.

Moody's Investors Service said new tax reform measures enacted by triple-A rated North Carolina are substantial but manageable.

Fitch Ratings has returned Florida's outlook to stable from negative, becoming the last of the three major rating agencies to do so following the economic downturn.

Standard & Poor's dropped the investment-grade rating of an 11-year-old charter school in Boynton Beach, Fla., well into junk territory.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $196.94 million of revenue refunding bonds issued by East Baton Rouge, La., sewage commission in 2006.

Jefferson County, Ala., finalized an agreement with the IRS to protect the county’s tax-exempt sewer system warrants in return for a $4.5 million payment.