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The latest continuing resolution leaves state and cities with no clarity on federal budget variables that may affect their own spending plans. And the debt ceiling looms larger.

The chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley said he’s more worried that the stock market has reached record highs in recent months.

It only took a few seconds for members of the Pauls Valley Board of Education to give their official blessing earlier this week to setting a spring date for the next local school bond election.

Municipal and Treasury bonds weakened as stocks surged to record highs in early trading.

Existing home sales fell 3.6% to a seasonally adjusted 5.57 million-unit rate in December from a revised 5.78 million sales pace the previous month, first reported as 5.81 million, the National Association of Realtors announced Wednesday.

Gov. Charlie Baker's group will examine changes in technology, climate and demographics.

Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell was confirmed with broad bipartisan support in the Senate to take the helm of the U.S. central bank when Chair Janet Yellen’s term ends Feb. 3.

City officials intend to fight language that they say would put the city on the hook for emergency repairs by the state-run MTA.

The Sales Tax Securitization Corp.’s second offering faced a tougher market environment.

New Jersey and New York lawmakers offer a bill to boost local finances by allowing homeowners who prepaid 2018 property taxes to fully deduct them.

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's plan to find private investors for Puerto Rico's power utility faces opposition from local leaders and may prove to be a tough sell to potential investors.

Several market participants said it’s hard to take such a proposal seriously.

The state will still review proposed and amended budgets, requests to issue debt and proposed collective bargaining agreements.

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., have asked the GAO how many tax-exempt munis were used for abortion-related facilities during the past 20 years and what was the associated federal tax liability.

The city's bond lawyer was not at the meeting and the board wasn't given a fiscal note saying how much the borrowing would actually cost.

Evergreen Public Schools officials cited aging facilities and a growing population among the chief concerns driving this year's school facilities funding measure.

The $55 million deal would be the second leg of financing needed for the $571 million project.

Phil Murphy's audit mandate is described as the first step to restore the beleaguered mass transit agency’s finances and infrastructure.

Underwriters reportedly offered spreads to the Municipal Market Data’s AAA benchmark scale of 55 basis points on serials ranging from 2031 to 2038.

Storm financing expert Alan Rubin, the "Hurricane Czar," examines ways to finance resiliency and recovery amid unprecedented natural disasters. Paul Burton hosts.