Nipsco Industries News

Maura Shaughnessy , manager of the top-ranked utility mutual fund over the past five years, is beating rivals in 2009 because of bets on companies including NiSource Inc.

The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of U.S. Steel Corp. in the steelmaker's 10-year-long court battle with Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

The Northern Indiana Public Service Company is donating $50,000 to the Shirley Heinze Land Trust to purchase 30 acres on the Little Calumet River, adjacent to Brummitt Elementary School in Westchester Township.

Please, people, keep your dogs restrained. It's not right for us who have our dogs on leashes to keep getting attacked or threatened by unrestrained Please, people, keep your dogs restrained.

Delinquent utility customers, take heart: You could be in the town of Merrillville's shoes.

When markets are rough, utilities are some of the safest places to invest. Handsome income streams to shareholders aside, utilities are essentially recession proof.

United Steel Workers Local 12775 and Local 13796 won't lack for stability over the next five years.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. employees, who are represented by the United Steelworkers, voted to ratify the collective bargaining agreement with the company on Tuesday.

NiSource Inc. is reporting a net income of $148.4 million or 46 cents per basic share in the first quarter of 2009, compared to $99.3 million or 36 cents per basic share in the year-ago period.

NiSource Inc. said Friday first-quarter net income fell 16% as the natural gas transmission, storage and distribution specialist paid a $25 million pension obligation and weathered challenging economic conditions.

BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Friday and determining how the stocks have performed after their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and April earnings reports.

ZANESVILLE -Two local students have been chosen as National Merit Scholars. Seniors Alex Sherman of Maysville High School and Emily Hill of Rosecrans High School were chosen among thousands of students nationwide.

NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage , a unit of NiSource Inc. , and Willbros Group, Inc.

Two Indiana companies -- Fort Wayne-based Steel Dynamics and Indianapolis-based Brightpoint -- for the first time joined stalwarts WellPoint, Eli Lilly and Co., Cummins and NiSource on the 2009 Fortune 500 list of top performers.

Indiana regained some prestige in the annual listing of the top revenue-producing companies.

NiSource Inc. today announced that its finance subsidiary, NiSource Finance Corp.

U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky will host his 2009 Military Academy Night at 6 tonight at the NiSource Building cafeteria, 801 E. 86th Ave.

NEW YORK - The president and chief executive of gas and electric utility NiSource Inc.

Similarly, the 10 largest increases in short interest positions on power and gas stocks by percentage essentially matched the 10 largest decreases in short bets in those sectors in February.

The natural gas odor that 170 Northwest Indianaresidents called NIPSCO about Thursday night and Friday morning was not natural gas.