The $54.3 billion spending plan for fiscal 2024 is $5.4 billion larger than last year's and $1.2 billion more than the proposal Gov. Phil Murphy pitched in February. It features tax-relief programs and tax code changes.

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza will highlight the state's progress on key fiscal metrics during upcoming meetings with the rating agencies and has updated the fiscal 2023 interim audit as the full audited results have not yet been published.

The $107 billion adopted budget for fiscal 2024 maintains a near-record $8 billion in total reserves but doesn't increase them.

States are putting billions of dollars of federal broadband funding to work, with more on the way.

The bank would be modeled in part on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation created during the Great Depression, said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill.

The Board of Education approved a fiscal 2024 budget amid warnings about the need for more state help to manage a gap of up to $700 million in fiscal 2026.

San Diego city leaders are in the early days of assembling a P3 that could transform six city blocks with fresh space for city workers and affordable housing.

With no agreement on how to structure a historic property tax cut, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state lawmakers back for a second special session.

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the Oversight Board propose a new plan of adjustment by July 14.

The new toll on vehicles entering large swathes of Manhattan will be a key part of the MTA's future capital plan.

The city is uncoupling Greenville's economic development arm from the local government, with the goal of spurring private sector investment in the city of 72,000.

Road projects make up more than half of the winning applicants, with transit accounting for another 16%.

Getting project grant agreements in place, which formally releases the federal funds, is taking more time than expected.

"We believe pensions have an elevated probability of stressing the state and local governments' budgets even as Illinois has made supplemental contributions above the statutorily required amounts," S&P Global Ratings analyst Joseph Vodziak said.

The bank hasn't managed debt sales in Texas since a measure took effect in 2021 that bars governmental entities from working with companies that "discriminate" against firearms businesses. BofA's "current risk-based framework and policies" can comply with that law, a lawyer for the bank has told the state.

The Brent Spence Bridge and Hudson Tunnel were among last year's winners of the sought-after federal Mega grants.

State lawmakers passed bills aimed at the city's home-rule powers and a union contract impasse, as well as funding for a convention center expansion.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers struck a budget agreement just days before the start of the fiscal year.

The Police and Fire Retirement System lacks authority to shift to a 20-year amortization of unfunded legacy liabilities from the 30-year term laid out in the city's bankruptcy exit plan, according to a judge's ruling that eases one fiscal pressure point for the city.

The early redemption plan saves the state $266 million in interest payments and allows pull-tab gambling revenue to flow to the general fund.