While speaking about bipartisan efforts to boost the state and local economy at a luncheon Friday in Cottleville, Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon and Republican County Executive Steve Ehlmann recalled an across-party-lines effort they took part in two decades ago in Jefferson City.

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“I got to know the governor…

The city of St. Charles would buy from its nonprofit partner the land on which a community/recreational center is planned under a recommendation from the joint committee overseeing the project.

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However, the committee has yet to finalize and announce other details of its proposal to jump-start the stalled project.…

Lake Saint Louis Alderman John Pellerito says he’s making some headway in his effort to pass a ban on smoking in public places in his city.

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Pellerito said a majority of aldermen at a work session Monday expressed interest in pursuing…

St. Charles’ Mayor Patti York is the new vice-president of Metro Mayors of St. Louis, made up of the mayors of cities with 10,000 or more across the St. Louis area.

She will serve over the next year with Washington, Mo.,…

A St. Charles County anti-smoking group has begun talking about the possibility of a petition drive to put a ban on smoking in public places on a countywide ballot.

Pat Lindsey, executive director of the Tobacco-Free Missouri Greater St. Louis Coalition, said…

Mayors Patti York of St. Charles and Pam Fogarty of Dardenne Prairie want St. Charles County voters to decide whether smoking should be banned in restaurants and other public places across the county.

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The two city leaders weighed in on the…

A drawing of part of the planned Streets of St. Charles project

The St. Charles City Council has passed legislation to undo a financing snag that threatened to significantly delay or downsize a $385 million commercial/residential project at the site of the old Noah’s Ark restaurant.

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New playgrounds accessible to children with and without disabilities are planned in St. Charles and O’Fallon, with the help of a St. Charles County agency.

The county Developmental Disabilities Resource Board on Oct. 22 approved matching grants of up to $250,000 apiece…

A judge has ruled that the Lincoln County Commission had no authority to stop paying some of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department’s bills, and the commission can’t amend its budget because of a shortfall.

Commissioners tried in April to reduce the sheriff’s department’s…

Seven months after a half-cent sales tax increase for capital improvements was rejected by Troy voters, the issue will be back on the ballot for another try in Tuesday’s election.

Mayor Charles Kemper said the tax boost - which would be…