Geoff Folsom

The Franklin County Commission voted 2-1 Tuesday to put a new county highway department headquarters on “pause.”

The preliminary results of a speed study on a section of Independence Drive near Union High School revealed most drivers travel at nearly twice the posted speed limit.

The City of Union may change course with the projects it is pursuing through the federal Surface Transportation Program (STP) grants.

Franklin County Presiding Commissioner Tim Brinker was among a group of area officials imploring St. Louis County to move more quickly in approving a “state-of-the-art” $50 million regional law enforcement

Union sales tax collections continue to increase over the previous fiscal year.

While local officials have been addressing how they handled the recent snow and ice storms for more than a week, Franklin County got to hear in person from a Missouri Department of Transportation official Thursday.

N.B. West Contracting Company, of Pacific, has been hired to lead improvements on Highway 100 from its intersection with Fifth Street on the east side of Washington to the St. Louis County line.

No one was injured Tuesday morning in a two-vehicle collision involving a Union R-XI School District bus.

The City of Union is reviewing how to attack snow and ice better in the next big storm.

Franklin County commissioners had to reapprove a licensing purchase agreement at a higher cost Tuesday because the vendor never received the county’s initial order.