COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dozens of Montgomery County residents packed the County Commission Room Thursday to voice their concerns against a possible Amazon data center entering the region. A major concern for residents is the data center’s environmental impacts, including noise pollution, chemical runoff and over-pumped wells. According to the International Energy Agency, large-scale data centers
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TONIGHT: Skies remain clear overnight, allowing temperatures to fall back to the teens. Wind chills could reach single digits in northern Missouri by sunrise on Friday. TOMORROW: Sunny and milder, with high temperatures rebounding to the upper 30s and low 40s. Winds from the southwest will be light at 5 to 10 mph. EXTENDED: The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi met with Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday to discuss public safety in the city, but some area leaders were absent. “I was disappointed, not just that I wasn’t there, that’s not a big deal, but that my police chief wasn’t there,” Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe
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THIS AFTERNOON: Mostly sunny and chilly, with highs in the mid-20s at best. TONIGHT: Skies remain clear overnight, allowing temperatures to fall back to the teens. Wind chills could reach single digits in northern Missouri by sunrise on Friday. EXTENDED: The week ends on a nicer note as sunshine and a light southwest breeze will
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TODAY: Thursday is an ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day as arctic air and a light wind will combine to create wind chills near zero. Highs reach the low 20s under partly cloudy skies. TONIGHT: Skies clear more tonight, dropping temperatures again into the teens by Friday morning. EXTENDED: Sunshine and southwest wind will push highs
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Steve Tubbesing sits in his office on Brown Station Road in Columbia roughly four months after he and his family experienced what he called a “nightmare” with a newly found mindset. Tubbesing is the grandfather to 11-and 8-year-old children who attend Jefferson Middle School and Ridgeway Elementary. Two days into the school year,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just two months into the 2026 fiscal year, Columbia has already nearly exhausted its utility assistance funds. So far, the city has spent $580,000 of its $600,000 for the year, prompting the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services to request an additional $200,000 from reserves. According to a City Council memo,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) It’s not uncommon for Missouri drivers to have to maneuver cones, reduce speeds, drive through narrow lanes, or have construction crews standing feet away from the road, with nearly 600 active work zones on highways across the state under the Missouri Department of Transportation. Even with signs telling drivers to slow down
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An entertainment district at the Lake of the Ozarks that is expected to open next year will receive additional funding from the state’s Property Assessed Clean Energy program. Oasis at Lakeport in Osage Beach –which will be located at Highway 54 and Jeffries Road, adjacent to the Grand Glaize Bridge – will
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for the possibility of sub-zero wind chills early Thursday morning. Temperatures will drop to the lower teens or single digits on Wednesday night, and the wind chill could fall near or below zero for several hours. SETUP A cold front connected to a
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TONIGHT: Light flurries are possible near and along I-70 through the evening, but accumulations will be light, and no traffic impacts are expected. Temperatures drop quickly overnight following a cold front, with wind chills approaching single digits by midnight. We’ll wake up to below-zero wind chills in northern Missouri early Thursday. TOMORROW: Thursday morning will
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The state senator who represents Columbia clapped back on social media after Gov. Mike Kehoe shared images of his meeting with University of Missouri President Mun Choi. Kehoe posted on social media with photos of him and Choi meeting with public safety officials, including Missouri State Highway Patrol leaders. “This week, our
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Carver School Apartments, once home to Fulton’s George Washington Carver School, opened Wednesday, adding 33 affordable senior apartments to the city’s housing stock. Victor Pasley, a member of the George Washington Carver Cultural Center and former student at Carver school from 1952-60, was inspired by a similar project in Sedalia that
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An ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day is in effect, starting at midnight tonight and lasting throughout tomorrow morning. This is for wind chills that could be below zero during the early morning hours. The thing is, the actual air temperature tomorrow morning will be close to 10 degrees, meaning it is actually a bit
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A popular bar in Columbia will close for 15 days after its liquor license was suspended by the state. Tropical Liqueurs – colloquially known as “Trops” by locals – will shut the doors of both of its locations in town beginning on Thursday, the business announced on its social media page. Trops
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has chosen a Columbia-based contractor to head up the team designing and building a section of the widened Interstate 70 between Columbia and Rocheport. The commission awarded Emery Sapp and Sons and Parsons Transportation Group as contractors for a $441 million project to widen and improve
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Scholastic is selling its headquarters in New York and its distribution center in Jefferson City through a lease-back deal, according to a press release from the company’s website. A leaseback occurs when a business sells a location to another party and leases it from the buyer. Scholastic is selling the Jefferson
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Head Coach Eli Drinkwitz announced the signing of the incoming 2026 class. On Wednesday, 19 student-athletes put pen to paper, officially committing to the University of Missouri for next year. “We’re excited to welcome this great group of freshmen to our program and brotherhood,” said coach Drinkwitz. “It takes everybody in this
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Wednesday is National Signing Day for high school football players to select which school they will attend. Mizzou football’s Eli Drinkwitz held a news conference at noon to talk about Missouri’s signings. Watch it in the video player.
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