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The city of St. Charles will turn on three of its offline water wells at the Elm Point Wellfield next week, a city spokeswoman said. Leslie Knight, strategic communications manager for the city, said the wells CW-6, CW-7 and CW-8 will be turned back on next Wednesday, Oct. 10. Knight said the resumption comes after the city installed a new carbon filtration system to process the water before it is pumped to residents. The city will shut down the only well currently operating, CW-10, for maintenance,…

Parents shopping on a budget may want to check out a big event happening in Collinsville this weekend.

A city board has added another delay to a developer's plan to turn a vacant public school into a 62-apartment building.

The city joins leaders St. Louis County trying to implement a new state law designed to cut taxes for older Missourians. St. Charles County already approved the tax freeze.

The Hazelwood School District will hold its first board of education community forum Thursday night.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said she wants to give area senior citizens a break by freezing their property taxes. "It's once in a lifetime for our seniors to freeze their taxes for many, many years to come," Jones said. The Missouri Legislature passed Senate Bill 190 earlier this year. It gives each county and St. Louis the choice to enact a property tax freeze for seniors. St. Charles County leaders have already said yes, but St. Louis County has said no. Jones hosted a roundtable with senior…

Emergency crews are at the scene of a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 155 Thursday morning.

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency are holding the meeting to answer questions about increased radium levels in the city's drinking water.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen will discuss two bills that would give an estimated $725,000 to the Department of Health.

A faith-based non-profit is holding its second annual gala Thursday night.

Police in St. Charles, Lincoln, and Warren counties are being honored Thursday night.

The former business manager for the St. Louis Police Union is suing the union.

The center of the Democratic political world is in St. Louis for the next few days, starting Thursday morning. That’s because the fall meeting of the Democratic National Committee or 'DNC', is taking place downtown at the Marriott Grand Hotel on Washington Avenue.

This year’s month-long festival is even bigger than in the past.

“Natural wine is not as well understood yet in the Midwest as in Paris, but it’s definitely coming,” says one expert.

To pass a package of tax credits designed to expand affordable child care will require getting by the “knuckleheads” in the state Senate, Missouri Chamber of Commerce President Dan Mehan said Wednesday. As he greeted the audience and panelists at a forum on the state’s child care needs in Columbia, Mehan blamed the defeat of […]

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WASHINGTON — One of Thomasina Brown’s favorite books is a memoir about a girl who deals with the grief of losing her father and struggles with her sexual identity. Brown, a 16-year-old student at Nixa High School in Nixa, Missouri, said in an interview that she felt a connection with the book, as she grieved […]

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