With three of 10 members absent, the St. Charles City Council Tuesday night delayed until next week a vote on a resolution authorizing negotiations on a possible city subsidy for a mammoth riverfront commercial-residential project between Interstate 70 and the…

The New Town ice rink last winter

One casualty of Whittaker Builders’ ongoing financial problems is the outdoor ice rink that began operating last December at the firm’s flagship New Town project.

Tim Busse, architecture director for Whittaker, said the rink won’t reopen this winter. That’s…

New Town behind some commercial construction

Last month, the St. Charles City Council voted to allow higher maximum sound levels in the New Town residential/commercial development for a year-long tryout period.

Now, to solve a related issue over whether city police have legal authority…

Most governmental bodies, such as state legislatures and the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, redraw their district and ward boundaries every 10 years after results come in from the once-a-decade federal census.

However, St. Charles officials are getting a head start.…

David Rosenwasser, director of St. Charles’ convention and tourism bureau, says he’s likely to ask the city to spend about $100,000 later this year to erect a temporary open-air rink in Frontier Park on the downtown riverfront.

The rink would be…