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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A new program would pump $5 billion of loans into the state's ports.
November 1 -
The public power procurers face cost challenges that drove one into bankruptcy, even as more established aggregators begin issuing bonds.
October 28 -
Fitch Ratings changed the outlook on the city's bonds to stable from negative ahead of the deal.
October 22 -
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will share some State Water Project supplies with smaller water agencies in Southern California.
October 14 -
The bill would have required cities, counties and the California Highway Patrol to post the amounts paid, broken down by individual settlement and judgment.
October 13 -
The unpredictable nature of wildfires increases long-term risks in western states where they are the new normal, S&P ratings analysts wrote.
October 5 -
City department heads are being asked to identify projects that would be eligible for federal funding.
September 28 -
An S&P Global Ratings analyst says the foregone rental assistance funding isn't likely to be a credit issue for the state in the near term.
September 17 -
$2.75 billion is available to build permanent housing for unhoused people, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference.
September 10 -
Melissa Norcia, appointed Tuesday, will begin her new duties on Sept. 15.
September 7