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Four years after its launch, the $2.1 billion North Tarrant Express is open to traffic and providing a financial model for other projects in the state, developers say.

The Phoenix City Council has approved a $103 million construction contract for the first phase of a $590 million renovation of Terminal 3 at Sky Harbor International Airport.

Arizona's Treasurer and Republican candidate for governor is easing off calls for elimination of the income tax amid a $520 million deficit in the current fiscal year and a potential $1 billion shortfall in the next.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reached a settlement with Houston-area financial advisor R. Craig Rathmann, accused of colluding with RBC Capital Markets to limit competition on bond deals for municipal utility districts.

More than four decades after Southwest Airlines landed at Love Field, the Dallas airport is finally unshackled from the Wright Amendment that minimized its rivalry with Dallas-Fort Worth International.

More than four decades after Southwest Airlines landed at Love Field, the Dallas airport is finally unshackled from the Wright Amendment that minimized its rivalry with Dallas-Fort Worth International.

Texas sales tax revenue rose 7.9% in September to $2.17 billion, marking the 54th straight month of increases, but concerns about the oil and gas industry are beginning to emerge.

Conroe Independent School District in the northern suburbs of Houston sees strong demand for $150 million of bonds that include refunding and new money.

With revenues for the past year already running at record levels, Oklahoma revenues surged 8% in September.

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, one of the largest and fastest-growing in Texas, was upgraded by Moody's Investors Service as it headed to market with $463 million of new money and refunding bonds.