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While citing “noticeable, across-the-board improvements,” state Auditor Eugene DePasquale said significant work remains for the distressed city's three pension plans.

New Jersey's second-largest city resolved a feud over the bi-state agency's properties and payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements.

A think tank is urging residents to support selling the state-owned utility saying that would relieve ratepayers of paying billions in debt.

Platte County's lawsuit is the latest turn in its efforts to shed its obligation to repay bonds for a struggling shopping center.

Fitch Ratings dropped the South Carolina utility’s rating two notches to A-minus and revised the outlook to negative, citing a legal claim by its largest customer.

Potential federal oversight of public utilities, rising costs, and lawsuits create volatility for utility market investors, Fiera Capital says.

The vote ends the effort to create a new city and ends the legal debate over who would have been responsible for Stockbridge bond debt.

The five new board members plan to scrutinize future financing plans of the two Poinciana community development districts.

New ownership backed off on plans to issue community development district bonds to fund a buyout of recreation amenities at a Florida retirement community.

The state Supreme Court upheld the use of state lottery funds for charter schools.

Laws forcing the Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority to reduce tolls limit the agency's access to the bond market, its officials say.

Gage County had consulted a bankruptcy attorney, who told officials it wouldn't qualify for Chapter 9.

Fitch Ratings said it won't lower its ratings because of JEA's litigation attempting to shed a power purchase agreement with Georgia's MEAG.

The Georgia Supreme Court won't delay a referendum to de-annex half of Stockbridge, though the state's de-annexation law is still being challenged in court.

Technology problems with the nation's first commuter rail P3 threaten to unravel the partnership and junk the bonds issued for the project.

The placement carries a maturity of up to two years, and a Michigan State spokeswoman said the school will eventually issue long-term bonds.

The ratings of four Southeast public power agencies were lowered due to uncertainty about future costs to build the new reactors.

State officials have lost two rounds in a lawsuit that says California improperly diverted money intended for homeowners to make payments on housing bonds.

MEAG joins two other owners of the Plant Vogtle project voting to move forward; Oglethorpe Power has yet to decide.

Florida’s JEA has asked federal regulators to review its power purchase agreement with Georgia’s MEAG, a move that could delay lawsuits filed over the matter.