TODAY: Friday is a brighter and drier day with partly cloudy skies. Highs reach the mid-70s. TONIGHT: Winds will shift more southeasterly overnight, and lingering clouds will keep lows near 60. EXTENDED: Rain chances return on Saturday as a quick-moving cold front brings a line of thunderstorms through from late morning to early afternoon. There’s
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TODAY: Friday is a brighter and drier day after widespread clouds and rain across the region Thursday. We’ll be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-70s and a light easterly breeze for much of the day. TONIGHT: Winds will shift more southeasterly overnight, keeping temperatures near 60. Clouds thicken, leaving us partly cloudy for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is working with the Columbia Police Department to try and prevent students from violating the city’s nuisance ordinance during Stop Day this Friday. Stop Day, or Reading Day, is a decades-old tradition at the University of Missouri that gives students a day off before finals each semester. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, May 2, 2024. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER TOLTON (0) HICKMAN (3) FINAL FULTON (0) MOBERLY (5) FINAL HS BASEBALL KIRKSVILLE (2) JEFFERSON CITY (8) FINAL CALIFORNIA (5) KNOB NOSTER (1) FINAL CUBA (2) SALEM (3) FINAL/9
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Editor’s note: Hanneken’s name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is leaning toward hiring a consultant to help set up the mayor’s proposed Office of Violence Prevention. Deputy City Manager Matt Unrein told ABC 17 News the city manager’s office was “being led to an idea” of bringing on a consultant
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Missouri petitioners will be turning in signatures to the Secretary of State’s office Thursday afternoon in an effort to get sports betting on the November ballot.
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TONIGHT: Scattered storms decrease, lows in the upper 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny with highs in the upper 70s. EXTENDED: Rain starts to taper off late tonight, leaving us drier and a touch cooler tomorrow morning. Highs reach the mid-upper 70s with more sunshine returning tomorrow afternoon. I’ll be tracking storms out ahead of a cold
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Mid-Missouri has seen long-standing drought that looks to be coming closer to an end. Rainfall the past month has lead to improving conditions within each weeks drought monitor. The change in drier than normal conditions and moderate drought seem to be day and night with this mornings update in comparison to that to start the
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ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) Southern Boone has found the new leader of its girls basketball program. The school district named Andrew Stone its new head girls basketball coach for the 2024-25 campaign, replacing Damon Wren who stepped down from the position in the spring. “I am beyond excited to be the new head girls basketball coach
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TODAY: Expect a high in the low 80s, at least until rain begins this afternoon. We’ll likely begin to see showers and storms overspread the region by this afternoon, from west to east. This will take some time, so many east of Columbia and Jefferson City will remain dry until after 3 p.m. Rain may
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) At 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning the 41 hour filibuster that was lead by a small group of republicans has ended, breaking the previous record held in 2016. The end of this filibuster will allow first round approval for a bill to fund medicaid. Five members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus was
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TODAY: Thursday starts dry for most. We may see a few showers and weak thunderstorms northwest of Columbia through the morning, but otherwise, we’ll be dry and partly cloudy, with temperatures warming nicely. Expect a high in the low 80s, at least until rain begins this afternoon. We’ll likely begin to see showers and storms
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Wednesday, May 1, 2024. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER HICKMAN (3) ROCK BRIDGE (0) FINAL HELIAS (4) JEFFERSON CITY (0) FINAL HS BASEBALL HICKMAN (1) ROCK BRIDGE (5) FINAL HELIAS (6) CAPITAL CITY (1) FINAL EUGENE (3) TOLTON
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) This week, Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe returned from a trip to Switzerland. The trip included eight other female U.S. mayors as part of a delegation to Switzerland. Buffaloe said the trip did not cost taxpayers any money. The Swiss government organized and paid for the trip in an effort to bring leaders
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation is planning to begin making improvements to I-70 from Columbia to Kingdom City in July, according to a project director. On Wednesday night, the department held the first of two open houses this week to gain feedback from the public, as well as display design changes coming
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) This past weekend, both Morgan and Moniteau counties saw confirmed tornadoes. This lead to damage across some portions of Mid-Missouri. Thankfully, nobody was injured or killed. But this isn’t always the case with severe storms and the effects could range from loss of property to large mass casualty events like that seen
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The Missouri Office of Administration says it wants to make the Missouri State Penitentiary a “world-class tourist destination” if funding gets approved by the Senate.
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and warm with lows in the mid-60s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy early with temperatures rising to near 80 before more showers and storms move in by early afternoon. Some storms could be strong with isolated strong winds and 1″ hail. EXTENDED: We stay mostly dry tonight into tomorrow morning, but cloud cover keeps
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A group that advocates for workers’ benefits plans to submit a petition with over 200,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office on Wednesday.
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An Illinois man was charged Wednesday with six felonies for allegedly shooting from a vehicle over the weekend on Paris Road.
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