Economy

Craig General Hospital in northeastern Oklahoma continues to operate after filing for bankruptcy protection.

Gov. Rick Scott has appointed three to the board of the Florida Development Finance Corp., which will issue $1.75 billion in bonds for the All Aboard Florida private train.

Standard & Poor's raised its rating on Silver Cross Hospital in Illinois by one level to BBB as it prepares to pull its rating at the hospital's request.

President Obama's proposed six-year transportation bill would give states more flexibility in tolling of existing roads and bridges.

Faced with losing billions in federal funds for low income health coverage, Florida House and Senate Republicans are $4 billion apart on the 2016 state budget.

Congress will not find the revenue needed to fund a multi-year federal transportation bill before the most recent short-term fix lapses in two months, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Ohio, said.

The Rapid Bridge Replacement Project is Pennsylvania's initial P3 and the first nationwide to bundle multiple bridges into a single procurement.

Kentucky legislators passed a bill stabilizing the state’s gas tax collections in the waning hours of this year’s annual session.

Measures in the House and Senate would set aside for local projects a portion of states’ federal highway funding.

The Central Florida Expressway Authority won a 1.23% interest rate on a 35-year TIFIA loan Wednesday, the program's lowest-ever long-term rate, a federal transportation official said.

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago won an upgrade from Standard & Poor’s as it fiscal books remain on the upswing.

Ohio next week will launch its first public-private partnership with the sale of $230 million of tax-exempt private activity bonds for a highway through the Appalachians.

With no solution in sight for fully funding New York MTA's capital program, the Citizens Budget commission watchdog group presents a funding alternative.

States have postponed scores of road projects over concerns that federal funding will be delayed during the summer construction season.

Betsy Taylor, the longtime finance director Massachusetts Port Authority and its point person on bond deals, is retiring after 37 years with the agency.

Raising money primarily from motor vehicle user fees could close the capital plan funding gap of New York’s MTA, according to the Citizens Budget Commission watchdog group.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert called for negotiations on a plan to expand Medicaid that would be approved in a special session of the state Legislature.

Mayors will unleash a coast-to-coast political push for a significant increase in federal transportation funding.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is touring the state urging voters to approve a May referendum to raise the state sales tax to generate new money for roads, saying it’s key to the state’s continued rebound.

The board of New York's MTA will vote on the sale of nearly $56 million in unused development rights in Queens after its finance committee approved it.