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2024 Budget Before St. Charles County Council

• View the 2024 Preliminary Annual Budget (PDF)

The County Council is reviewing next year’s budget, a balanced budget as thick as a phone book, the result of months of meetings, uncomfortable chairs, pots of coffee and calculator ribbons curling on...

St. Charles County Modernizing Its 911 System

The next generation of 911 is coming to St. Charles County, after the County Council voted to authorize an agreement between the County and the cities of Lake Saint Louis, O’Fallon, St. Charles, St. Peters, and Wentzville to modernize the emergency phone ...

Spooky Fun Had at Police Department Trunk-or-Treat

Little superheroes and mini monsters took over the St. Charles County Police Department’s parking lot Oct. 14 for the department’s annual trunk-or-treat event.

“We probably had over 200 kids and their families,” says...

Flu Fighters Give Free Vaccinations to Nearly 800 People

Nearly 800 people rolled up their sleeves and cruised through the Department of Public Health’s annual Flu Fighters drive-thru vaccination clinic on Friday. Patients didn’t even need leave their cars as they moved from station to stati...

County Finding New Ways to Keep Illegal Drugs Out of Jail

Local news media toured the St. Charles County jail, as Corrections Director Dan Keen highlighted new ways to keep illegal drugs from getting in.  

“All jails are faced with the same thing,” Keen said. “In St. Charles...