Southwest

A $235 million advance refunding of Utah general obligation bonds could be sidelined by falling Treasury rates, according to state Treasurer Richard K. Ellis.

Phoenix has formed a citizens committee to plan for expansion of the city's light-rail after Mayor Greg Stanton said he wanted to triple the length of the existing system over three decades.

Plans for a $90 million hotel adjoining the Irving Convention Center have fallen apart after the private developer failed to find financing.

After opening its light rail line to the airport four months early, Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials are pressing on with bond-financed rail development.

Running four months ahead of schedule on the light-rail connection to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that opened Monday, Dallas Area Rapid Transit leaders are taking no time to catch their breath after five years of intensive bond-financed development.

The felony indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry covers actions he took against the Travis County District Attorney's office while its investigators looked into grants to his campaign contributors from a $3 billion cancer research bond fund.

Texas will issue $5.4 billion of tax and revenue anticipation notes to smooth cash flows to school districts in the 2015 fiscal year

The long-running power struggle at the University of Texas that led to a legislative censure of UT Regent Wallace Hall is credit negative for the UT System, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The Fannin County Public Facility Corp. in Texas has settled tax law violations with the Internal Revenue Service by agreeing to pay $1.75 million and redeem all of the outstanding bonds from the $30.78 million it issued in 2008 to finance a jail.

The largest teachers' union in Kansas is seeking to overturn provisions in the state appropriations law that strips tenured teachers of their rights to appeal firings.