Southwest

A $70 million unpaid bill from El Paso Children's Hospital prompts layoffs at University Medical Center and a plea for a $20 million loan from the El Paso County Commissioners.

After three months of falling below projections, Kansas revenues rebounded in July, officials said.

San Antonio and Bexar County officials have reversed course and called for a voter referendum on a $280 million streetcar project.

The Allen, Texas, Independent School District will use $2 million of existing bond funds to repairs a two-year-old stadium that cost $60 million to build.

With no debt on its books, Salt Lake City International Airport has broken ground on a $1.8 billion redevelopment that will not require a bond issue until 2016 at the earliest, officials said.

Oil and gas producers in Colorado won a significant legal victory Thursday, as a state district court struck down a local on hydraulic fracturing within city limits.

Despite ongoing federal court battles over the fate of the nation's health insurance system, Utah's Intermountain Healthcare Services found a receptive muni market when it priced $158 million of tax-exempt bonds July 22, officials said.

A year after voters rejected a $99 million bond issue that included a controversial football stadium, Katy Independent School District is considering a $748 million proposal that includes a cheaper stadium.

Texas will provide nearly $6 million in subsidies for Charles Schwab Corp. to add a new center in El Paso and expand its Austin operation, Gov. Rick Perry said.

Houston saved about $16.6 million on $372 million of new money and refunding issues over a two-day period, controller Ronald Green told The Bond Buyer.