Ameren Illinois drove the lesson home earlier this week during a simulation of a van crashing into a power pole at its Decatur training facility, 271 S. 27th St. Attendees were invited to sit ...

Ameren spokespeople tell First Alert 4 that around 1,100 power poles were replaced by crews following May 16 -- across both Illinois and Missouri.

DECATUR — The outage that left about 2,600 people without power on Saturday night was caused by a broken pole outside of a substation, according to Ameren Illinois.

An Ameren initiative to repurpose retiring wood utility poles for commercial applications prevented 2,100 tons of wood waste from being discarded in area landfills last year. On average, Ameren ...

UPDATE (10:38 p.m.) — As of about 10:30 p.m., about 1,454 people are without power south of Washington, Illinois, according to the Ameren Outage map. The exact cause of the outage remains ...