Rates

Researchers say if state officials don’t curb utility spending, “Illinois is on course to maintain its entire gas system indefinitely.”

St. Louis-based gas utility Spire is expanding programs that help customers with past due bills and those with medical emergencies pay their bills. The company’s additional efforts to help some customers come as it raises rates about $3 a month for the average customer.

A Missouri appeals court has upheld a 2009 decision by state utility regulators to approve a rate increase for Ameren Missouri.The Missouri Public Service…

Hearings will begin in about a week on a $276 million rate increase request for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. MSD says the rate hike is…

New Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich plans to rate the entities he audits on a scale of excellent to poor.Schweich said Friday his grading scale is intended…

Natural gas customers of Ameren Missouri soon will see their rates go up, but not by much.The monthly bill for a typical residential customer is projected…