THIS MORNING: Partly cloudy and cool with morning temperatures in the 50s and 60s. TODAY: Gradually decreasing clouds throughout the day with highs around 80 degrees. EXTENDED: We remain pleasant through the holiday weekend as highs reach the lower 80s with sunshine through Monday. The pattern doesn’t budge much next week with highs in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football fans will see some changes to their game day experience out at Faurot Field this season with stadium upgrades, concession stand additions and travel impacts on I-70. The current renovations to the north end zone will continue throughout the season; however, in addition to those changes, Mizzou Athletics has also
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HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) A town hall crowd that packed the Harrisburg Lions Club was sharply critical of U.S. Rep. Mark Alford (R-Raytown), his congressional votes, and his support of President Donald Trump and his policies. Alford, whose district includes about half of Boone County, held the event Wednesday night as part of his town hall
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In less than 24 hours, Memorial Stadium will be jam-packed with black and gold, as the Tigers kick off the 2025-26 season against Central Arkansas. Downtown is never a scarce scene in Columbia on game days, but with many students left unable to claim tickets after Mizzou Athletics rolled out a new
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Regional Airport is taking steps to prevent vehicles from being left in airport parking lots for extended periods, a problem that has limited available spaces for legitimate travelers. “We’ve had vehicles with flat tires and vehicles that have been sitting out there for long periods of time that we’ve observed,”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football has assembled a jam-packed roster of leadership ahead of the 2025 season. On Thursday, the Tigers will begin the road to a third straight 10-win season against Central Arkansas with nine captains leading the charge. It marks the largest group of leaders that the program has had in a single
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The ABC 17 Sports team previewed the 2025 Mizzou football season, ahead of Thursday night’s opener against Central Arkansas. Sports director Nathalie Jones and anchor Kyle Helms dove into head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s ongoing quarterback competition, a record-setting group of team captains and a whole lot more. You can watch a full
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has been suspended for the first six games of the 2025 season. According to ESPN, the NFL said on Wednesday that Rice accepted a six-game suspension for violating the personal conduct policy after he pleaded guilty to a 2024 Dallas crash. The suspension is without
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics is urging the Mizzou faithful to plan out their game day more than ever before, as renovations to the north end zone at Faurot Field will rage on through the 2025 football season. Although MU worked to make the changes to the game day experience as minimal as possible, there
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) To find success as a walk-on in college football, it takes a unique blend of skill, dedication, passion, grit and toughness. Even then, it’s not always guaranteed that you’ll carve out the role you would’ve hoped. Mizzou receiver Logan Muckey possesses and each every one of those qualities, plus an extra one
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two students are dead and 14 are injured after a deadly school shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school on Wednesday. This comes after several colleges across the country received fake reports of active shooters, according to a previous ABC 17 report. Chief Operating Officer for the Missouri School Board’s Association Center for
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and mild with lows in the upper 50s to around 60. TOMORROW: Gradually decreasing clouds throughout the day with mild temperatures around 80. EXTENDED: A few light showers could approach the Lake area tonight into tomorrow with more of the steady rainfall staying across southwest Missouri closer to low pressure. We’ll hold
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An organization will be announcing a lawsuit against University of Missouri President Mun Choi over the removal of Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine from last year’s homecoming parade. The Council of American-Islamic Relations will be announcing the lawsuit in a press conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday on the corner of Elm
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Football season is just a day away, and with that comes many different types of weather throughout the entire season. Different weather conditions and the location of where a football game is played can actually have a large impact on the outcome of these games. Temperature itself can cause many differences on both the trajectory
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Testimony continued on Wednesday in the trial of a Columbia man accused of a 2022 deadly shooting. Isaac J. Bryant is facing charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Demetrius Ware. Multiple witnesses and experts took the stand on Wednesday. Bryant is accused of shooting Ware, 37, of
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TODAY: I’m tracking temperatures getting into the low 80s by the afternoon hours as winds blow out of the south at 5-10 mph. Clouds will be visible throughout the day, but any chances of rain will stay to the southwest throughout this period. TOMORROW: I’m tracking decreasing clouds throughout the majority of the day as
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THIS MORNING: Cool with morning temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Clouds gradually roll in from the west. TODAY: Mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. A few showers are possible south of Highway 50 by the evening. EXTENDED: Rain will linger in southern Missouri through early Thursday, but sunnier skies
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools is working to get a handle on work that needs to be completed within its schools. The Long-Range Facilities Planning Committee met Tuesday afternoon to provide an update on its facility condition assessment. CPS narrowed down each facility’s needs into four categories: Immediate, critical, noncritical and deferred maintenance. Immediate
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City and Cole County Public Works are looking for sponsors to foot an around $18 million renovation bill for the city’s High Street viaduct. The updated estimate that was announced Tuesday morning during a Cole County Commission meeting is around $6 million more than what was expected in November 2023.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ahead of the start of the 2025 football season, the University of Missouri said that Tiger students and fans will ‘no longer be rushing the field’ after big victories at Faurot Field. UM System President Mun Choi released a statement to Mizzou faithful on social media and email, on Tuesday, to address
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