Southwest

The Las Cruces School District has a brighter outlook on its Aa2 rating from Moody's Investors Service as it prepares to issue $10 million of general obligation bonds.

The University of Texas Regents approved $265.5 million of bonds backed by the state's Permanent University Fund.

Standard & Poor's upgraded Oklahoma Water Resources Board's state loan program revenue bonds to AAA from AA-plus based on a higher general obligation pledge.

Tempe, Ariz., has allocated $40.8 million to build the nation’s largest steel dam on Town Lake three years after the original inflatable rubber version collapsed and released nearly a billion gallons of water downstream.

A lawsuit has halted delivery of $33 million of bonds for San Antonio's VIA Advanced Transportation District that priced Oct. 17.

Voters in Tulsa, Okla., approved a record $918.7 million bond package by wide margins Tuesday.

Texas A&M University System will price $210 million of top-rated bonds backed by the state's Permanent University Funds in a competitive sale Wednesday.

An FBI fraud investigation of the Grand Junction Regional Airport Authority in western Colorado could have a long-term impact on the airport’s credit, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Before 67% of voters in Utah's Jordan School District defeated the largest school bond proposal in the state's history on Nov. 5, district officials and those from the city of Bluffdale exchanged angry letters over alleged use of public money during the campaign.

Standard & Poor's on Friday raised its rating on general obligation debt for Coffeyville, Kan., one notch to A-plus from A based on revised local GO criteria.