Southwest

Rising concern about the availability of future water supplies and the need for new infrastructure will take center stage at The Bond Buyer's Financing Municipal Utilities Conference.

Texas voters turned against some major bond proposals in elections held Saturday.

University of Texas regents approved $334.5 million of university revenue bonds to fund a medical school in Austin.

Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a pension reform bill because it did not lower the state retirement system's unfunded liabilities.

Oklahoma's monthly gross revenues reached a record monthly high of $1.27 billion in April.

Topeka will build up fund balances in effort to restore GO credit downgrade.

Arizona county officials have asked the state to end diversions and charges that have cost local governments $137.6 million since fiscal 2009.

Kansas House committee approved $202 million of bonds for the state's share of a bio-defense laboratory in Manhattan, Kan.

Texas voters will consider more than $2.5 billion of bond issues in sixty school districts across the state Saturday.

The first state sales tax on recreational marijuana cleared the Colorado General Assembly, with the first $40 million wholesale tax revenue directed to a bond program for school construction.