Southwest

Two weeks after New Mexico lost its triple-A rating from Moody's Investors Service, New Mexico took a one notch downgrade from S&P Global Ratings to AA with the outlook remaining negative.

A $500 million bond issue for a new Major League Baseball stadium in Arlington, Texas, a $720 million transportation issue in Austin and a record amount of school bonds in Colorado were among the winners in Tuesday’s elections in the Southwest.

For the first time in nearly two years, Oklahoma’s tax collections from the production of oil and natural gas in October surpassed those from the same month the previous year.

Arizona's Salt River Project is gearing up for a $720 million refunding deal next week.

As voters in other Texas school districts consider bond issues to build new classrooms, those in the Houston Independent School District will decide how to hand over $162 million of tax revenue to the state.

Colorado voters Tuesday will consider a measure to create the nation's first universal health care system.

A recent trend of seeing Texas revenues fall short of projections was reversed by a slight increase in October, according to state Comptroller Glenn Hegar.

Kansas collected $12.7 million less revenue than anticipated in October, continuing a trend that has forced the state to reduce spending.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper wants to cut $191 million from state highway budget.

Making a big leap west, Missouri-based Gilmore & Bell PC snared an eight-lawyer public finance team from Ballard Spahr LLP’s Salt Lake City office.