LOS ANGELES-Pacific Gas & Electric seeks Chapter 11 protection, even after having 46% rate hike approved a week earlier. Move shocks state officials and leaves 13 million residential and commercial electricity users hoping for the best.

NEW YORK CITY-Currently, there is no place at the 60 Hudson St. telecom hotel where carriers can intersect. A new 15,000-sf facility, dubbed the Meet-Me-Room, will change that.

ORLANDO-The East Central Florida Planning Council here is starting to receive paperwork on at least three mega mixed-use ventures whose development costs will easily top $1 billion each, planners say.

LANSING, MI-A lease land measure, brownfield authority rules and airport zoning changes are all on the governor's desk, says the Michigan Municipal League. Property assessments could be affected.