Lexi Cortes
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Ahead of the 2024 primary, St. Clair County has consolidated its 190 voting precincts down to 149 to comply with a change in Illinois law. -
More than 2,500 residents in the Nashville area were still without power on Saturday afternoon, Ameren’s outage map showed. -
County officials took yet another step in the process of transferring the 22.5 acre property from private to public control. -
Gulfstream is adding positions for aircraft technicians, installers and supervisors at St. Louis Downtown Airport as part of a tax credit agreement with the state. -
In total, the federal government allotted St. Clair County more than $50 million to help it respond to and recover from the public health emergency. -
The office has $200,000 more in its budget than it did about five months ago. The chief defender used the new money to raise salaries to retain existing lawyers and fill vacancies. -
County Board Chairman Kurt Prenzler said Monday the agreement had not yet been finalized or signed. He declined to comment further until then. -
Gov. JB Pritzker, state legislators, mayors and other officials gathered at the airport Thursday to spotlight the investment. -
135 students at Waterloo High School lined up last Friday to protest a school policy that allows transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. -
Raw sewage backups and chronic flooding have been a decades-long issue in Centreville, now Cahokia Heights. Residents previously filed two federal lawsuits over these issues in 2020 and 2021. -
Kathleen “Kitty” Kinkel, 77, was found dead in a field near the back of the facility six hours after she left the building on Jan. 31. -
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2021, accuses the agrochemical giant's plant in neighboring Sauget of polluting East St. Louis.
