An unwelcome, expensive and possibly illegal surprise was the topic of discussion at an emergency city meeting Thursday night in New Haven. The Board of Aldermen and other city officials met to discuss a quadruple increase in the price of the city’s natural gas in February compared to Januar…

Lent is about self-control, but the county’s fish fries make the next 40 days of restraint easy to swallow. These Friday dinners are in abundance through the start of April.

Neither a fire nor a pandemic kept St. Vincent de Paul in Dutzow from hosting its Lenten fish fry.

Attorney: Child Was Abused Over 200 Times

Snow plows were out early Monday dealing with what’s expected to be the largest snow storm Franklin County has seen in at least a couple years.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bitter cold temperatures and dangerous wind chill levels are expected across much of the central United States at the start of the week.

The search for a missing teenage New Haven mother and her 9-month-old child ended Wednesday in the Washington Walmart, approximately 15.1 miles from where it began. 

When Antonio Ceballos moved from Mexico to Washington four years ago, he joined a community that prides itself on legacy. Neighborhoods, or "barrios," are seemingly filled with people who can trace their family lineage through generations of Franklin County citizenship. The title of “local” …

Fuse's Candidacy Increases Number Of Candidates To Five in Washington's Ward 1 Race

The Father-Son Duo Say Inauguration Was Still A Meaningful Experience

DEFIANCE — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is creating an opportunity for both adults and youths to discover upland gamebird hunting at the Beginning Youth Pheasant Hunt and Clinic. The staff at MDC’s August A. Busch Shooting Range and Outdoor Education Center in Defiance is pu…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 5% pay raise for Missouri elected officials and lawmakers will take effect unless state lawmakers act by Monday.

Officials Say Three of Four Headline Music Acts Have Been Booked, No Names Released 

As the rest of the world came to a screeching halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Missouri Department of Transportation stayed busy completing more 541 projects statewide and issuing $100 million more in payments to contractors in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the department’s annua…

Overwhelming demand for COVID-19 vaccines has prompted Mercy Hospital Washington to extend the days and hours of its vaccination clinic.

Melton, WEG, Bank of Washington

Stimulus Checks Are Arriving;

Three vehicles were involved in a crash on Highway 100 near Buchheit Road and the Coulter's Landing Access Tuesday, Jan. 12.

Franklin County reported an 89-year-old Washington woman has died from COVID-19. She is the county’s 113th victim reported since the pandemic began in March and the first death to be reported in 2021, although it is unclear whether she died after the start of the year. At the start of Decemb…

Branch construction begins in February.

Service Workers Are The Ones to Feel the Impact of the Pay Shift

Additional Candidates File For City, School Board Seats 

Franklin County commissioners have approved a fiscal year 2021 budget that includes a 3 percent cost-of-living pay increase for employees.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson called it the worst bridge he saw on a statewide tour in 2019. 

The Boy Scouts’ annual Scouting for Food Drive collected 19,000 food items, an additional 2,800 pounds of food and around $2,000 in donations for area food pantries. At press time, final numbers from the individual units in the Osage District — which governs troops in Franklin, Gasconade and…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The federal government must pay some landowners along the lower Missouri River for flooding damage caused by changes the Army Corps of Engineers made to the river to protect endangered species, a judge has ruled.

The Franklin County Government Center, Historic Courthouse, Judicial Center, and the Frnaklin County Health Department will be closed Thursday, Dec. 24 and Friday, Dec. 25 in observance of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, according to a press release from Franklin County Clerk Tim Baker. 

If a white pine tree fell in Pea Ridge Forest, chances are someone would be around to hear it.

Editor's Note: Since this story's initial publication at 5 p.m. Dec. 2, The Missourian has learned from the attorney general's office that Avery Jr. is in custody in a facility in St. Louis County, but custody has not yet been transferred to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. This change …

A New Haven man was taken to a St. Louis area hospital after suffering serious injuries in a Sunday morning crash in St. Charles County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. 

Court Alleges Illegal Slot Machines

Franklin County Presiding Commissioner Tim Brinker defended the county’s mask mandate and the emergency meeting where it was approved.