Ameren last won a rate increase last year, which added about $14 to the average household's bill. Some of this year's increase is allowed by 2025 legislation.
See Post-Dispatch coverage of Ameren Missouri electric rate changes. The latest: The utility asks state regulators to boost rates by some $343 million.
After Kirkwood Electric spiraled into crisis, city officials fired two people they believed responsible. But publicly, the city claimed they had retired instead β and paid them to leave.
ST. LOUIS β After retiring what a Bi-State official once called a "failed" ticketing system, Metro Transit will turn on its new fare system, ticketing machines and security gates at 13 train stations before dawn Monday morning.