COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) June 28 of each year will be recognized in the state of Missouri as Eliot and Muriel Battle Day. Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed Senate Bill 1544 on Monday, which modifies state designations. Among those designations is a day to honor Eliot Battle, the first Black faculty member at Hickman High School,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 on Monday completed its four-day deployment in Reynolds and Iron counties to respond to and help with the historic flooding in southern Missouri. The task force was originally placed as a type 3 resource, meaning only half the team was deployed, but after seeing the severity of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Voluntary Action Center’s Opportunity Campus in Columbia officially opened the doors to its overnight shelter Monday to support people experiencing hardship and homelessness. “I would not be at all surprised if we reached 150 overnight guests tonight,” Voluntary Action Center Executive Director Ed Stansberry said. The 30,000-plus-square-foot facility, capable of serving
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been corrected to show the “cuts” are suggestions based on proposals submitted by each department at the start of the process. COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is proposing cuts in its fiscal year 2027 budget due to a $7.37 million general fund deficit. City documents report the city
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force One team members are expected to make their return in Boone County on Monday. In a news release on Sunday, MOTF-1 said it’s nearing completion of its flood response mission in southeast Missouri after supporting statewide response efforts in Reynolds and Iron counties. Since arriving on Friday, the task
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The Columbia Public School Board is set to discuss and vote on changing who reports and intervenes in bullying incidents during the year. The policy has been under consideration since April.
According to the board’s agenda for Monday, the new policy would allow school employees, substitutes, and educational contractors who work with students to intervene and provide support to students who are being bullied.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia announced in a Friday press release that it is expanding its parking enforcement devices. The city will start using “wheel immobilization devices,” beginning on Monday. This is in additional to the parking barnacles the city started using last year. The release says it will be used for people
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The City of Columbia had its first in a series of forums over its proposal for a public safety sales tax that would pay for a new Columbia Police Department headquarters at a building formerly owned by IBM. The plan would spend $35 million to convert the building. Do you like the idea? Let us
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia held the first of six public forums Thursday night to explain how police and fire leaders would use a proposed 1% public safety sales tax that will appear on the city’s August ballot. Leaders from both departments plan to visit each city ward throughout the month to answer
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors after he allegedly pulled out a gun during an argument at a business. William Smarr, 39, was charged on Thursday in Boone county with unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and two counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. He is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported in a fire on Wednesday at a duplex in the 2400 block of Northampton Drive, a press release from the Columbia Fire Department says. The fire was accidentally stated by a propane grill on a balcony of the second story of the building, the release says. Crews were
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a “sunset” date for its proposed public safety sales tax that will appear on the November ballot. If approved, Proposition L – which is a proposed 3/8-cent sales tax that will be used to build a new jail – will expire Dec. 31, 2042.
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The City of Columbia has been in talks for months with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources over the renewal of a permit that allows it to discharge stormwater. In any urban environment, stormwater will be polluted with organic and inorganic chemicals from a variety of sources. But some state officials have zeroed in on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Wednesday marked two years since the death of Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Matthew Tobben. BCFPD honored Tobben on Wednesday by lowering its flags at half-staff. “We honor his memory and remain committed to carrying forward the values he exemplified throughout his career,” BCFPD Fire Chief Doug Westhoff said in
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Editor’s note: This article has been adjusted to reflect the correct city council meeting date. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two local downtown business owners are putting their support behind a proposal for an urban camping ordinance for downtown Columbia. Executive Director of Columbia’s Downtown Community Improvement District Nickie Davis said the CID plans to submit a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia collected nearly 110 tons of recycling materials in the first 10 days after curbside pickup resumed. Utilities spokesman Jason West told ABC 17 News that is more than 25 tons of recycling materials that were collected during the same period in 2025. An EF-1 tornado hit the city’s
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) A teenage girl accused of stabbing another youth in April will not stand trial, according to the Boone County Juvenile Office. Boone County Juvenile Officer Angie Bezoni told ABC 17 that the girl accused of stabbing someone in central Columbia will not face adult charges. Instead, the Juvenile Office recommended the girl
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is expected to receive the required waterway permit from the Department of Natural Resources, with an ordinance to manage encampments near bodies of water up for a final vote in the coming weeks. “The department expects to issue the permit by the end of this month,” DNR spokesman
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge dismissed the final group of defendants who were remaining in the wrongful death lawsuit surrounding University of Missouri student Riley Strain. Strain died during a fraternity trip to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2024. Strain’s family sued the Delta Chi fraternity and its members, claiming the chapter did not follow
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of East Ash Street in downtown Columbia will close for about a month beginning on Thursday so a mural can by painted on a building at 110 Orr Street, a Wednesday press release from the City of Columbia says. The closure between Orr and St. James streets will begin 7
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