The St. Charles Elks Lodge #690 has awarded three police officers and a firefighter for their service.

The winners, who received plaques at a recent steak dinner celebration, all were nominated by their departments to receive the awards.

Lodge member John Still,…

Next week, nearly 100 middle and high school students from Lincoln and St. Charles counties will compete in the 12th annual Robotics Challenge at St. Charles Community College.

Student teams are challenged to build a miniature robot that would function much…

Genealogy buffs, mark Nov. 7 on your calendars. St. Charles Community College and the St. Charles County Historical Society are planning a family history workshop in Cottleville.

The workshop will have four sessions from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.  Nov. 7 at St. Charles Community College.

Patricia Walls…

Police, firefighters and paramedics from throughout the St. Louis area square off in Cottleville Saturday at a soccer tournament to benefit BackStoppers Inc.

BackStoppers helps the families of emergency responders who die in the line of duty.

The Unsung Heroes Soccer Tournament kicks…

Cottleville will celebrate the grand opening of the city’s Legacy Park with a festival on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event at the park, off Highway N behind City Hall, will include live music, a petting…

Sunday’s Post-Dispatch has a special report by staff reporters Jeremy Kohler and Joe Mahr about some of the major obstacles to cracking down on repeat drunken drivers.

Part of their report was a statistical analysis and ranking of the St. Louis…

The move of a log cabin to Cottleville’s Legacy Park shut down a stretch of Highway N for about an hour this morning. Mayor Don Yarber said the shutdown occurred from about 10 to 11 a.m.

The cabin was moved from…

(File photo) Firefighters with Central County Fire and Rescue extinguish a blaze in January.

If you live in the Central County Fire and Rescue district, the tax rate on your next bill for fire service will rise by 54 percent.

That’s because…

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., will stop in Cottleville on Tuesday to chat with people about the economy.

McCaskill’s visit to St. Charles County is the first of 11 “Kitchen Table” talks in…

On Wednesday, St. Charles County Prosecutor Jack Banas announced he would not file charges in the Binford’s bar brawl involving off-duty cops last month in Cottleville.

To read the story and see the video, click this link.

Banas said he wouldn’t charge…