The Winfield-Foley Fire Protection District will receive $1.2 million in federal stimulus money to build a new fire station, officials said today.

Chief Bill Byram received a call from the office of Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country, this morning telling him…

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St. Charles County and St. Charles city officials are teaming up to hire an engineering firm to assist them with their appeals of revised federal flood risk maps.

The County Council on Monday night voted 7-0 to pass the joint agreement. The City Council…

St. Charles city officials estimate that about 500 people poured into the St. Charles West High School cafeteria Wednesday to peruse revised flood insurance maps for the city and try to figure out how the changes might affect them.

Many people interviewed said they couldn’t…

Preliminary revised flood maps released recently by the federal government would, if made official, put new restrictions on about 25 to 30 homeowners along Highway H east of Highway 94 in the county’s northeast corner.

St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann said the maps call for…