COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education unanimously passed the 2026-27 budget at its meeting on Monday evening. Previous reporting and a presentation from the district show the operating budget projects $309.8 million in revenue compared with $321.5 million in expenditures, resulting in a planned use of approximately $11.7 million in reserves. Healthcare costs
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia is looking to finalize a $42 million project to modernize the city’s electric and water meter infrastructure; replacing and retrofitting tens of thousands of aging meters with advanced technology designed to improve billing accuracy, outage detection and customer access to utility data. The proposed Advanced Metering Infrastructure project would replace 53,992
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COLUMBIA MO. (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department on Monday completed swift water rescue training at Hinkson Creek as flood waters continue to flow across low water crossings in Mid-Missouri. Battalion Chief Dan Berlemann said with all of the rain around the area the past few days, it was a good opportunity for firefighters to get
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Monday released video from a May 7 chase that ended with a man shooting himself. Law enforcement had chased Steven A. Swanson, 32, after he allegedly shot and killed a 35-year-old man and injured a 65-year-old woman near the 5100 block of North Douglas Drive, outside
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man who was on probation for a first-degree assault plea from 2024 has been charged again. Timothy Jerome Dale, 57, was charged on Monday in Cole County with second-degree assault, drug possession and tampering with evidence. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond and a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Christopher Ave will start a new role later this month. The Director of the University of Missouri’s media relations and public affairs will become the City of Columbia’s communication director on June 22, the city announced in a Monday press release. Ave was one of three finalists announced by the city last
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A tick-borne allergy might be on the rise across Missouri and the United States. But scientists and researchers can’t really pinpoint how much it may be growing. Alpha-gal syndrome is a food allergy to products from mammals, like red meat, which contain the alpha-gal molecule, that a person can develop when bitten
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools will return to Cole County court on Monday as the months-long legal battle over charter schools in Boone County continues. CPS filed the suit in December after the charter school, Frontier, announced a plan to establish a charter school in the county. The application was later approved by
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Supreme Court on Monday denied the state’s appeal on a ruling last week that tweaked the ballot language on a question asking voters to eliminate the state income tax. Chief Justice W. Brent Powell denied the appeal by state officials to challenge the rewritten ballot language in an order
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person was rescued after their vehicle was swept away in floodwaters in Cole County early Monday morning. Jefferson City Fire Department said its crews were called around 5 a.m. to assist the Russellville-Lohman Fire Protection District near Scrivner Road and South Moreau Creek. Russellville-Lohman crews arrived to find the car had
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There have been multiple reports of flooded roads in Mid-Missouri after storms and heavy rain moved through the area. Since 10 a.m, Sunday, Boone County Joint Communications has sent out at least 15 alerts for water in the roadway or flooded roads. The most recent alert was sent at 5:07 a.m., stating
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The first match of the FIFA World Cup is Thursday, and some Mid-Missouri agencies are working and training for kick-off. The Boone County Office of Emergency Management started planning for the World Cup about a year ago, deputy director Jacob Waller said. “We kind of started planning internally some of the issues
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several Boone County Sheriff’s deputies were seen in the 4300 block of W. Bethany Drive in Southwest Columbia on Saturday. An ABC 17 News reporter on scene observed law enforcement putting up crime scene tape. The reporter also saw at least eight evidence markers placed on scene. The reporter also saw an
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The city of Eldon lifted a four-day-long mandatory boil order Saturday morning, after routine testing found Total Coliform and E. coli in the water supply Tuesday. The city started an emergency sanitisation process earlier this week, which uses chlorine to kill harmful bacteria. Now that the boil order has been lifted, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Saturday, Boone Health hosted its Mid-Mi Baby Expo, welcoming about 400 first-time and expecting parents for hands-on lessons focused on childbirth, infant safety and newborn care. The event ran from 8 a.m. until noon. Missouri has seen a slight rise in childbirths over the last few years, according to the Missouri Department
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals on Friday rewrote the language of a ballot measure that seeks to eliminate Missouri’s income tax and expand sales taxes. The court heard the case after a Cole County judge ruled against a challenge to the ballot measure on Monday. The appeals court on Friday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mom’s Demand Action Missouri and Powerhouse Community Development led a joint effort against gun violence Friday night. In light of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, the groups gathered with and for survivors of gun violence at Douglass Park in Columbia. Attendees wore orange in solidarity. Two of those in attendance included Kimberly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 66-year-old Versailles man was killed in a crash on Friday afternoon on Route W in Morgan County near Old Marvin Cutoff Road, a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol says. The report says the man drove a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado southbound and it went off the left side of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Allegiant Airlines started two new service lines from the Columbia Regional Airport to Destin and Orlando, Florida, earlier this week. The new destinations were made possible through a $1 million revenue guarantee that the Columbia City Council approved in May. The city has doled out $82,000 from the transportation sales tax as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Fayette announced on its social media on Friday that another lake will be closed until further notice. D.C. Rogers Lake closed at 4 p.m. Friday because of “recent storm impacts, elevated water levels, as well as ongoing work associated with the D.C. Rogers Wing Wall construction project,” the city
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