Areas in Boone such as Centralia face unique problems in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. The city is abiding by the county’s stay at home order, and mayor Chris Cox says he’s seen restaurants take the biggest hit so far.
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Governor Parson signed executive order 20-05 on Monday, allowing restaurants to sell unprepared food.
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The Columbia Chamber of Commerce has worked to take steps to help get assistance for small businesses feeling the impacts of COVID-19.
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Gov. Mike Parson announced the first cases of COVID-19 in Boone and Cole Counties on Tuesday afternoon, but local downtown Columbia restaurants are still doing what they can to stay open.
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If Missouri follows the lead of states shutting down restaurants and bars in response to COVID-19, many workers fear they will be without a job.
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Target is one of many chain grocery stores making adjustments during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Changes brought about by the national and state of emergency will allow the Missouri Public Health Laboratory to test more COVID-19 kits. According to Bill Whitmar, the Missouri State Public Health Laboratory Director, more funding from the federal and state governments and new FDA compliance provides the lab with the ability to test COVID-19 kits
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DREXEL, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri business owner says his product could help prevent the spread of the newly discovered strain of the coronavirus. The problem, according to InnovaPrep CEO David Alburty, is getting a hold of someone within the system that might be interested. InnovaPrep takes up several buildings in the downtown area of Drexel,
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True/False Film Festival is expected to bring more than 10,000 people to Columbia, and downtown specifically this weekend.
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Columbia Regional Airport received a grant for $800,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation Small Community Air Service Development Program.
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A decade after a business deal combusted, the city of Moberly plans to bring another company to the community promising scores of new jobs.
Continue ReadingA meat packaging company plans to build a facility in Moberly that would create hundreds of new jobs.
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The River City Habitat for Humanity is nearly doubling down on its regular home builds this year after the tornado that struck Jefferson City last May.
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Mid-Missouri has had above average amounts of snowfall this winter, with more than 16 inches of snow.
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Demolition started Tuesday on the Moniteau Creek Bridge in Cole County. Eric Landwehr, a Cole County Public Works engineer said the bridge, which is located just off of Highway 179, had been out of commission since 2016. “It’s about time because it was getting in bad shape,” Landwehr said. In February 2016, MoDOT gave the
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The Columbia City Council is scheduled to vote on several ordinances on short term rentals at Monday’s meeting.
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Chiefs fans already started going to bars around Columbia Friday night to celebrate Super Bowl weekend.
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The Columbia City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday where it will vote whether or not to take part in a pilot program that would gather data on tobacco retailers in the city.
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Boone Hospital hosted a job fair for Pinnacle employees Tuesday in the Pinnacle Regional Hospital lobby.
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The Lucky’s Market in downtown Columbia will stay open for now as dozens of other stores are shuttered, managers in Columbia said Tuesday.
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