Bryce Gray

4 days ago | stltoday.com | Bryce Gray

Missouri American Water, the St. Louis region’s dominant water utility, will soon increase its annual revenues by $143 million, based on settlement agreements approved this week by state regulators at the Missouri Public Service Commission. The approval filed Wednesday does not resolve all matters tied to the nearly yearlong push to raise rates for the water utility that covers much of suburban St. Louis, and other parts of the state.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Bryce Gray |Josh Renaud

UNIVERSITY CITY — Ellyssia Rogers decided to move back to the St. Louis area in 2020. She found a 3-bed, 3-bath ranch on Groby Road for $210,000, across the street from the River Des Peres. She closed on the house in March that year. In August, her basement flooded. Neighbors warned her: “‘That house floods all the time,’” she remembers them saying after she moved in. “And that was the first time I heard it.

2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Bryce Gray

Bayer announced Tuesday it will install a new chief financial officer in July at its Crop Science division, turning to veteran company executive Guru Ramamurthy, who will be based at its North American headquarters in the St. Louis area. Ramamurthy will replace Oliver Rittgen, “who has decided to pursue a career opportunity outside of Bayer after 25 years with the company,” the German conglomerate said in a release issued Tuesday.

2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Bryce Gray

ST. LOUIS — Spire announced Friday that it elevated Scott Doyle to be its new president and CEO, effective immediately — marking another recent change atop the St. Louis-based gas utility. Doyle, who will also serve on the company's board of directors, becomes Spire's third leader in 19 months. He replaces Steve Lindsey, who became CEO in October 2023 and has resigned from his role as a member of Spire's board, the company said Friday.

1 month ago | stltoday.com | Bryce Gray

The long-awaited excavation of radioactive contamination at the West Lake Landfill Superfund site is targeted to begin in 2027, roughly two years ahead of schedule, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. The announcement comes after years of delays in the cleanup timeline for the eventual removal of illegally dumped radioactive waste that traces back to local uranium processing for the Manhattan Project’s creation of the nation’s first nuclear weapons.