Southwest

The city council approved the private placement of up to $325 million of notes to commence funding for a $1 billion convention center expansion project.

Bond-issuing infrastructure districts and development zones were a focus of legislation passed by Utah lawmakers during a session that ended March 7.

The nonprofit Wood River Community Housing Trust uses municipal bonds as part of its toolkit to finance workforce housing in the pricey Sun Valley, Idaho, area.

If the seven states dependent on the Colorado River don't craft a new operating agreement, the federal government could end up doing it for them.

A city-created corporation plans to issue bonds for the mass transit project, paid off with a voter-approved hike in the maintenance and operations property tax.

The Lone Star state, the nation's largest exporter of goods, could be hit economically by a tariff war, particularly with Mexico, its biggest trading partner.

Glenn Hegar, the state comptroller since 2015, was chosen as the next chancellor for the Texas A&M University System by its board of regents.

Ordinances pending before the city council would authorize up to $325 million of interim financing that would be refunded with fixed-rate, 30-year bonds.

The Texas city, which is considering an $800 million general obligation bond election next year, expects to issue nearly $400 million of debt in 2025.

Texas, Oklahoma, and other Southwest states would jump on the bitcoin bandwagon amid a nationwide surge in bills to invest public money in cryptocurrencies.