Improvements to Highway DD will be finished before the end of 2010, state officials said today.

Kevin Keith, chief engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, sent a letter to County Executive Steve Ehlmann saying the state would accelerate improvements to the…

For the first time in several years, there are no across-the-board pay increases for St. Charles County employees under the proposed 2010 budget submitted by County Executive Steve Ehlmann.

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“Economic forecasts for 2010 indicate some improvement in the economy might occur,”…

Unlike the spirited battle for county executive already shaping up in St. Louis County more than a year before the November 2010 election, the race for St. Charles County executive has been a quiet affair so far.

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So far, no Democratic challengers have surfaced to take on…

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 St. Charles County Council, with one dissenting vote, has confirmed the hiring of former Missouri Corrections Director Larry Crawford as the new county corrections director.

The council voted 5-1 on Monday night to endorse the appointment by County Executive Steve…

St. Charles County announced late this afternoon that today was Col. Alan Stahl’s last day as director of the St. Charles County Department of Corrections. He is expected to be replaced by Larry G. Crawford, a former state representative who…

A judge has rejected St. Charles County and St. Louis County’s challenge of a $10 increase in the fee charged by sheriff’s deputies across Missouri for delivering civil subpoenas, writs, summonses and other areas.

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The money raised by the fee hike, enacted in…

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Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday endorsed a request by Steve Ehlmann, the Republican St. Charles County executive, for an additional $100 million in federal economic stimulus grants to complete the final nine-mile segment of the Page Avenue extension.

The extra money would…

A long-discussed St. Charles commercial/residential development along the Missouri River and a planned Weldon Spring office complex are among St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann’s choices for tax-exempt bonds under the federal economic stimulus program.

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Under the stimulus program, counties across the country were assigned a…

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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…