ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Boone County clerk is eyeing a run for a seat in Congress. Taylor Burks filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on July 1 to run for the Fourth Congressional District seat in 2022. Burks is the current director for the Division of Labor Standards for the state of Missouri.
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Tropical Storm Elsa continued its approach to Florida on Tuesday, with forecasters saying the storm is likely to hit the state’s west coast Wednesday as a hurricane.
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Experts say the delta variant is spreading fast throughout Missouri and is expected to “explode” in Fulton, Columbia and Jefferson City in the next week.
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Troopers worked 294 crashes over the holiday counting period in 2020 which includes 107 injuries and five deaths. Troopers arrested 145 people for DWI in 2020 and worked 14 boat crashes with seven injuries and no deaths.
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Officers were called at about 7 p.m. to the 1200 block of Again Street near Again Street Park and West Boulevard Elementary School, the Columbia Police Department said in a news release.
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was seriously injured Monday after falling off a cliff in Pulaski County. According to a Facebook post from the Waynesville Rural Fire Protection District, emergency crews were called to the incident around 11:30 a.m. Monday. Once rescue crews got to the scene, they found a man about 300 feet
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MoDOT will be making improvements as part of a rehabilitation project to both directions of Highways 54 and 63 along the bridge.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia City Council members are set to discuss parking for a new hotel on the corner of Cherry and Hitt Streets downtown Tuesday night. The parking agreement being introduced would let the hotel use 99 parking spaces in the Hitt Street Parking garage to support the anticipated off-street parking demands generated by
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Millions of Americans took to the rails, roads and skies over the Fourth of July weekend.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Members of the Fulton community with the help of the Fulton Police Department organized a firework festival on Sunday in Carver Park. Hundreds of people gathered at the park for a basketball tournament, rap battles, a car show, food and drinks and to end it all, a firework show. The festival was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia council will meet Tuesday to discuss the construction of the Fourth Street and Broadway pedestrian crossing project in Downtown Columbia. This project design includes a new crosswalk connecting the northeast corner to the southeast corner of the Fourth Street and Broadway Intersection. Columbia resident, Kin Brown, said she
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Spokesmen for two Boone County rural fire districts said the Fourth of July weekend was relatively quiet, with few calls for injuries or other fireworks-related issues.
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The number of injury crashes and deaths on Missouri roads this holiday season is trending lower than predicted, according to crash numbers available from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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Check back for updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Missouri.
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Fire officials are warning of proper firework disposal after a dumpster fire at the Midway Heights Baptist Church on Monday morning. Fire Captain John Wilke with the Boone County Fire Protection District said the church had a large fireworks display to celebrate the holiday. After the fireworks were over, they were
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has accepted assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address the spread of COVID-19. Formation of the surge teams will begin this week. The CDC and their associated foundation offered to recruit and hire surge teams consisting of public health professionals
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Columbia residents flocked to Flatbranch Park downtown as the city’s Fire in The Sky celebration kicked off on Sunday.
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The state now has a seven day positivity rate of 9.9% on Sunday. The increase in positivity comes along with an additional 864 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 527,495. The state also added 312 probable cases of the virus to the dashboard Sunday. In total, 95,131 probable cases of COVID-19 were
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MORGAN, Mo. (KMIZ) One man is dead after a fatal crash in Morgan County on Saturday night. Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the crash happened at 10:10 on Saturday night on MO 52 Eastbound about 1,000 feet from Stevenson Lane. 35-year-old Jeffery Smith from Stover, was traveling eastbound on a 2003 Harley Davidson Motorcycle when
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The bicentennial celebration of Columbia’s Fire in the Sky wraps up Sunday. The annual Fourth of July festival has a lineup of family-friendly musical guests and a historical tour of Columbia planned for the final day.
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