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…

More than 300 people crammed into New Melle’s Community Club last night to talk about ways to improve Highway DD, a road that state officials say is among the most dangerous of its kind in the state.

State Sen. Scott Rupp…

The St. Charles County Council has signed off on spending $3.3 million to buy a 175-acre site near New Melle for a new county park.

The council on Monday night also approved accepting David and Mary Jane Wolk’s donation of a…

Judith Ulery (Courtesy of Pitman Funeral Home)

The St. Louis Crime Beat blog has an update on Judith Ulery, 63, of New Melle. She and her mother were crushed by a bulldozer that fell off a truck’s flatbed on July 8.

Ulery has…

The Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 5651 in New Melle is hosting a Christmas in July brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday at 555 Foristell Road.

Admission is $5 for brunch, or $20 for brunch and three raffle tickets for…

New Melle’s first city park will be dedicated Saturday at the town’s Earth Day celebration.

The event, which will run from noon to 3 p.m. in the parking lot by City Hall at 145 Almeling Street, also will feature recycling and rain…