The St. Charles County Council voted 6-0 on Monday night for a measure designed to renew pressure on state transportation officials to cut the speed limit on a stretch of accident-plagued Highway DD west of Highway 40.

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The measure, if ratified by…

After hearing about a planned St. Louis aldermanic resolution opposing a Rams ownership bid including Rush Limbaugh, the chairman of the St. Charles County Council was preparing to rush to the bid’s defense with a resolution of his own.

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“The most important thing was to keep (the team) in St. Louis,” Council…

St. Charles County officials are trying again to get state officials to cut the speed limit on a mile-long stretch of accident-plagued Highway DD west of Highway 40.

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County Executive Steve Ehlmann on Thursday asked the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission…

The “tea party” movement and its message of fiscal restraint and opposition to big government comes to St. Charles’ Frontier Park Friday with a rally from 5 to 7 p.m.

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Among the speakers will be former state Rep. Bob Onder, R-Lake…

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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…

The federal economic stimulus program will reach into the tiny unincorporated town of Defiance with $430,000 to pay for a pedestrian and bicycle pathway to link the Katy Trail to local businesses on the east side of Highway 94.

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Dan Foust, who last year spurred the revival of the St. Charles County Municipal League, has been picked as its executive director.

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Foust, who was defeated in November for re-election to his seat on the County Council, will work parttime for…

Former St. Charles County Councilman Dan Foust, who helped revive the county’s Municipal League in 2007-08, might become the organization’s executive director.

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The league’s vice-president, St. Charles Councilman Richard Veit, said league board members are considering the possibility of creating such a position and naming…

The St. Charles County Council has voted to allow collecting of edible mushrooms in county parks - as long as the amount taken is for personal consumption and won’t fill more than a two-gallon container.

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The council on Monday night approved the…

St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann is asking the County Council to lay the legal groundwork for possibly offering voluntary furloughs to county government workers as a cost-cutting move.

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However, Ehlmann’s spokesman, John Sonderegger, said there are no plans now to actually implement the program.

He said …