Keeley Webster has covered the Bond Buyer's nine-state West Coast region for more than a decade. Prior to The Bond Buyer, she wrote about commercial real estate for the award-winning California Real Estate Journal until the paper folded. She moved into business reporting in 2000, but has covered politics, cops, courts, education and environmental issues for newspapers in seven different states. She has won several awards for her work, including an Associated Press award for in-depth reporting.
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The Port of Oakland cited supply disruptions in China for an April traffic decline, though Long Beach and Los Angeles posted gains.
May 20 -
Coordinated national efforts to share firefighters and other resources could be stretched thin this year as drought hammers the West.
May 17 -
Gov. Gavin Newsom's focus on voluntary water conservation has not brought much in the way of water conservation — consumption grew 19% year-over-year.
May 12 -
A national high-speed rail coalition penned a letter to the state's Democratic leaders saying allocating bond funds for the state's high-speed rail project would encourage federal support.
May 6 -
A spending limit formula voters set in 1979, combined with surpluses in the tens of billions of dollars, put California lawmakers in a quandary.
May 5 -
California expects to receive nearly $40 billion from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
April 27 -
Fitch affirmed the Los Angeles-area airport's A rating and raised its outlook to stable though a $1 billion terminal project stalled during the pandemic.
April 25 -
A lot is at stake for facilities like Los Angeles International Airport, which has a $15 billion capital improvements program underway.
April 21 -
The budget represents a turn-around as the county got a handle on pandemic-related expenses.
April 20 -
Moody's deemed the temporary gas tax holidays implemented in several states credit negative.
April 14