Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to accept a $137,500 federal grant designed to help the sheriff’s office fight drug trafficking. The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program ...

Pacific Post 320 might have been the underdog after a loss in the first pool play game of the Zone 1 Freshmen Tournament. However, Post 320 (21-12) didn't look like an underdog in the other three ...

A key metric for tracking drug use among Franklin County students shows a sharp drop between 2018 and 2024, according to survey data released last week. Self-reported rates of recent prescription drug ...

Franklin County is considering using money from a now-shelved project to pay its share of widening 4,000 feet of Highway 47 to four lanes. County commissioners unanimously voted Tuesday to approve a ...

The City of Union is considering implementing regulations for certain rooming and boarding facilities based on one recently passed in Washington. “This is geared toward some issues we’ve had recently ...

St. Francis Borgia graduate Bryce Mayer will be getting a new baseball challenge. Mayer, who played for the Knights and Post 218 locally, and St. Charles Community College and the University of ...

Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed a bill that Scenic Regional Library has pushed for several years. Kehoe signed Senate Bill 396, sponsored by state Sen. Ben Brown, R-Washington, and Brad Banderman, R- St.

Franklin County commissioners approved the purchase of a new SUV Thursday for the sheriff’s office but signaled they would like to change the county’s vehicle purchasing policy in the future.

The Union R-XI School District is changing its trash and recycling vendor. The district goes out to bid for trash services annually, and this year ended up selecting Meridian Waste. The company was ...

Earlier this year, a Franklin County judge barred Nisha Chand from keeping animals after dogs and birds in her custody froze to death on her property outside St. Clair last winter. A person claiming ...

The Washington City Council approved an agreement Monday with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for a $1,432,086 federal grant to pay for improvements to East Fifth Street. The ...

A New Haven man was charged Tuesday with felony first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle in connection with an incident over the weekend. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched Sunday to the 1900 block ...