A public hearing is set for Thursday night on the topic of O’Fallon, Mo.’s proposed 2010 budget.

The proposed $71.2 million budget calls an across-the-board wage freeze for the city’s roughly 375 employees.

If it passes, employees will not receive step increases…

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…

Rain, rain, go away.

That’s the sentiment around the O’Fallon, Mo., Police Department, where hundreds of case records are heading to the shredder after being damaged by flooding.

Major Kyle Kelley says recent rains have caused some flooding in the basement where…

The St. Peters Board of Aldermen voted Thursday to approve a new budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

Spokeswoman Lisa Bedian said the city’s expenditures are set to increase by 1.47 percent to more than $74 million from more…

The St. Charles County Circuit’s judges met this afternoon, and, reversing a vote they took Monday, agreed to delay courthouse renovations for at least one more year.

The county, which owns the courthouse, still plans to spend about $50,000 to have…

A judge has forced Lincoln County to pay some of the sheriff’s department’s outstanding bills amid a brewing budget battle between the county and sheriff’s department.

The temporary injunction requires the county to pay the department’s bills as county commissioners work…

The O’Fallon City Council is expected to pass a proposed $79.2 million budget at tonight’s meeting.

The general fund, which pays most employee salaries, will shrink by about $3 million from last year, to $25.3 million.

City spokesman Tom Drabelle said the…

Mark Schlinkmann reports that the St. Charles City Council voted Tuesday night to keep a $200,000 open-air pavilion in the city’s $102 million budget for next year. That sets up a showdown between the council and Mayor Patti York, who has…