To help fight the nursing shortage and aid high school students’ transition into their careers, Mercy Hospital and Four Rivers Career Center are teaming up to pay students for their clinical work in the Earn While You Learn program.

After two years at 209 E. Main St. in Union, the Franklin County Historical Society is looking for a new home.

Sarah Vondracek plans to launch Beauty Marked Salon Suite in Union Oct. 1 to bring “white glove” service to Franklin County.

Reversing a 2019 decision, the Washington City Council voted Monday night to implement a parking lot rental program that will allow individuals, civic organizations and others to rent city-owned parking lots for private and public events. 

When voters passed a 30-cent property tax on Aug. 2, 2016, it was promised that a new station and truck would be delivered within five years, according to Washington Fire Chief Tim Frankenberg.

Strap on your kilt, and strike up the bagpipes — a Celtic festival is coming to Washington.

Hoping to make it easier for residents to prevent unwanted solicitors from coming to their homes, the Washington City Council repealed a portion of the ordinance that required participants in the city’s no-visit list to renew their registration biannually. 

Coming off the only canceled fair in a 90-year run last year, organizers are anticipating the 2021 Washington Town & Country Fair will welcome the community tradition back with a firm exclamation point. Early indicators have the fair on track to meet and even potentially top previous rec…

The remnants of more than 120 trees, cut without permission on the city’s riverfront in February, will be removed later this year, according to a deal brokered between the city, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and attorneys representing the property owner…

The identity of the man who purchased the 1882-dated $5 bill for nearly $4,500 July 23 has been revealed.

Like much of the country, city of Union employees will see another holiday on their 2022 calendars.

Tiffany Femmer, of New Haven, was sentenced to 120 days in the Franklin County jail and five years of supervised probation, according to court records. She was also ordered by the courts to pay near $182,000 in restitution.

The city of Union is starting to get down to business on its new comprehensive plan.

Franklin County has 22 dispatcher positions, though only 19 are filled. Washington, which New Haven contracts with, has nine dispatchers. Sullivan and Pacific each have five.

For more information about the United Way’s 2020 campaign and the five pilot companies chosen for 2021, see the special supplement in this weekend's issue of The Missourian.

A Q&A with Missouri's governor.

Bob Merlis, the band’s publicist, told The Missourian Friday morning that the Washington show will still take place. Substituting for Hill on bass guitar will be Elwood Francis, Hill’s longtime guitar technician and a close friend of the band, Merlis said.

The Union Splash-N-Swimplex is getting some help from the state to provide healthier concessions.

There was little suspense Wednesday about whether the Union R-XI School District Board of Education would implement a mask mandate during the 2021-22 school year.“I think you will all be very pleased with what the board decides, even though we haven’t decided yet,” Board President Virgil Wei…

Youth football players in Union will have nicer digs to prepare for games this season.

Masks will not be required by the Washington School District this fall.

Although still a week out from the Washington Town & Country Fair's official Aug. 4 start date, excitement is building for this weekend's parade and kick-off party. 

A Franklin County judge has sentenced a Leasburg man to probation in lieu of a prison sentence after the man admitted in court that he was responsible for a string of burglaries at the Sullivan Walmart. 

The haze lingering in the sky the past couple days around the St. Louis area, including in Franklin County, is smoke originating from wildfires in the western U.S. and southwestern Canada, according to the National Weather Service.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The St. Louis County Council has voted to end the county's mask mandate, just a day after it took effect and prompted the state's Republican attorney general to sue to try to stop it.

A St. Clair man is facing criminal charges after police say he held a box cutter knife to his nephew’s throat during a fit of anger. 

A Washington man who as a teenager was part of a 2018 shootout between two vehicles at Highways 100 and 47 has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation after brokering a plea deal with the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. 

As the heat rises and people flock indoors to the air conditioning, those without air conditioning rely on city-run cooling centers.

The city of Union took a step toward allowing microbreweries and distilleries in commercial areas.

The Pacific Board of Aldermen approved a controversial residential subdivision at its regular meeting Tuesday.

Washington’s June sales tax revenue was up 28 percent from last June, the biggest year-over-year monthly increase this year.

Frick’s Quality Meats announced Wednesday that two-thirds of its production employees will be seeing up to a $3-an-hour wage increase beginning Monday, July 19.

The Union Development Corp. (UDC) is surveying the last large site in its Union Corporate Center industrial park.

Hermann-based Stone Hill Winery won the award for best wine at the Missouri Wine Competition, one of more than 40 honors it took home from the competition, July 13-15.

Customers will walk by four 12-foot skeletons adorned in pirate costumes to enter Treasure Aisles Outlet, set to open in St. Clair in early August.

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulates Robert “RJ” Audrain IV of St. Louis for catching the latest state record longear sunfish under alternative methods. Audrain was fishing from a private pond in Franklin County July 3 when he caught the 5-ounce fish. …

With Monday’s appointment of Dan Hittson at a special board of aldermen meeting, the Union Park Advisory Board now has a full slate of 12 members.