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Tracking the coldest air of the week for this morning
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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Parents see improvements in CPS bus routes, find tracking app to be useful at times
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 nearly out of utility assistance funds two months into fiscal year
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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Hidden in ‘plane’ sight: Missouri State Highway Patrol turns to the sky to catch speeders
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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Osage resort to receive $65 million in PACE financing
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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Weather Alert Day: Dangerous cold expected on Thursday morning
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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Tracking dangerously cold wind chills tonight and early Thursday
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
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Kehoe, Choi meeting draws response from state senator
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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Old school in Fulton becomes affordable housing
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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What is wind chill, and how does it make you feel colder?
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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Tropical Liqueurs to close for 2 weeks amid liquor license suspension
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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Commission selects Mid-Missouri contractor for I-70 work from Rocheport to Columbia
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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Scholastic entering lease-back agreement for Jefferson City distribution center
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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Mizzou Football inks 19 new players on National Signing Day
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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WATCH: Drinkwitz talks about Mizzou football’s National Signing Day class
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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Tracking the return of arctic air
TODAY: Wednesday is another colder than average day, just a bit warmer than Tuesday. We expect highs in the upper 30s to near 40° by the afternoon. Winds will start from the south, but switch to the north around midday along a cold front. This front will pass without precipitation initially. TONIGHT: Some light wintry
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Columbia seeks to create task force to explore campaign finance regulations
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is considering to form a task force to look into campaign finance reform. The council on Monday night unanimously approved creating the task force, though specifics of the task force– including who would be on it and how many people would make it up — still need to
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Sportsbooks see ‘pent-up demand’ in Missouri’s betting debut
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Legal sports betting went live in Missouri on Monday, with more than 2 million people attempting to access sportsbook apps on launch day. Circa Sports, one of the first two companies in Missouri to receive an online betting license, now operates in six states. The first bet placed on Circa was a
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Teenager shot while inside Boone County home
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A south Boone County neighborhood is still shaken after a 15-year-old was taken to a local hospital after they were shot in the face early Tuesday morning. The Boone County Sheriff’s office said in a release that Joint Communications received a call about a juvenile being shot in the face at 12:04
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