Southeast

Standard & Poor's raised its long-term revenue bond rating on Florida's Seacoast Utility Authority to AA-minus from A-plus.

Florida has officially given the final approval for the $2.1 billion I-4 Ultimate Project in central Florida to move forward as the state’s largest public-private partnership.

Kentucky prices $153.5 million of taxable notes Thursday to finance health care benefits owed to the Teachers' Retirement System.

Assured Guaranty said Monday that it disagrees with the trustee for Jefferson County, Ala.'s sewer warrants to suspend payments, and will continue to make good on its insurance policies.

Fitch Ratings downgraded nearly $2 billion of Miami-Dade County's outstanding water and sewer revenue bonds one notch to A-plus from AA-minus on Friday.

Bank of New York Mellon said Friday that it will stop payments on Jefferson County, Ala.'s defaulted sewer warrants, and will seek court approval to accelerate payment of outstanding principal.

Gov. Rick Scott upped his spending and borrowing plans for 2014 proposing Florida's largest ever annual budget at $74.2 billion along with $730 million of bonds for transportation projects.

The Florida Department of Transportation is forging ahead with its biggest public-private partnership to date: a $2.1 billion managed-lanes venture dubbed the Interstate 4 Ultimate Project.

In Lexington, Ky., elected officials and union representatives may have set the stage for a new level of dialogue on how to solve unfunded pension liabilities using a public process and consensus to overhaul the city's police and fire pension system.

Conservative lawmakers have filed a package of bills designed to put more controls over the writing of Louisiana's annual operating budget.