COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou soccer team recorded its first win of the 2025 season with a 5-0 rout over Youngstown State, on Wednesday night. Four Tigers netted a goal in the first victory of the season, as head coach Stefanie Golan’s team improved to 1-0-1 on the season. Hailey Chambliss led the team with
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TODAY: Thursday is mild; you could even say cool compared to climatological averages. With highs in the low-to-mid 80s and dew points in the low 60s, we should still feel like 80s at the warmest this afternoon. Skies are mostly sunny, with winds at 5-10 mph from the northeast. TONIGHT: Skies remain mostly clear overnight,
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COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ) Some parents of students who attend Columbia Public Schools are not pleased with a new bus company the district rolled out, two days into the school year. CPS debuted its new bus service, DS Bus Lines during its first day of school on Tuesday, after it signed a three-year contract in February.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missourian who contracted an amoeba that kills brain cells at the Lake of the Ozarks has died, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday. The Department of Mental Health and Senior Services stated in a news release that the person, whose gender and age have not been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With the first day of classes in less than a week, the University of Missouri campus is alive with thousands of students moving into dorms. MU’s Director of Housing Tyler Page estimates 2,500 students arrived on Wednesday and another 1,500 will join on Thursday, with returning students expected to trickle in before
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Cole County deputies on Wednesday took part in an active-shooter training session at Lincoln University, giving deputies a realistic scenario to prepare for the worst. Inside an empty Perry Hall, about a dozen deputies practiced their response. “So the training is about the response to an active shooter, we try to
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Starting Aug. 28, period products, diapers and incontinence products will be exempt from all sales and use taxes, according to the Missouri Department of Revenue, including state and local. Tax for Columbia is about 8.975%, which adds roughly .45 cents to a $5 item. While the tax exemption will help lower the cost of menstruation
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with a few showers and rumbles early along and north of Highway 24. Lows in the mid-upper 60s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny with highs in the low to mid-80s. EXTENDED: I’m tracking an area of some weak convergence over southern IA and northern MO, not a front per se, but enough forcing to
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This time of the year if you look up into the skies around the woods, you have a good shot at seeing native bats hunting flying insects. During the daytime hours, especially in excessive heat, bats often times will be seen hanging out in caves, tree bark, and even man-made structures. According to Kyle Jansky,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Conservation has authorized an emergency fish salvage order for a lake in Mexico. The city government is draining the Lakeview Park Lake to replace a culvert nearby. The decreasing water levels and summer heat have resulted in low oxygen levels, making it impossible to sustain the fish population,
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TODAY: Wednesday is more mild, with highs in the 80s feeling like 90s with a north breeze and a heat index in the 90s. UV is high today, a level 8 under partly cloudy skies. TONIGHT: Skies are clear overnight, and temperatures fall into the mid-60s, cooler than we’ve been recently. EXTENDED: After a cool
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TODAY: Wednesday is more mild, with highs in the 80s feeling like 90s with a north breeze and a heat index in the 90s. UV is high today, a level 8 under partly cloudy skies. TONIGHT: Skies are clear overnight, and temperatures fall into the mid-60s, cooler than we’ve been recently. EXTENDED: After a cool
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team has officially put a bow on the most difficult fall camp in head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s time in Columbia. With a combination of heat, good-on-good periods, the shear number of periods, number of live tackling situations and more all testing the Tigers, the group made it out on
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City’s Center of Hope is expanding its services to help better address homelessness in the city. The year-round homeless shelter– located on Jefferson Street– opened a new homeless resource center. The center now allows anyone to stop into the center and gain access to resources and support. “Our caseworkers want
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With classes officially underway across Missouri, schools are bracing for changes to the sports and extracurricular landscape The Missouri State High School Activities Association is finalizing bylaw changes to comply with Senate Bill 63, which expands eligibility for homeschool, Family Paced Education and full-time virtual students to participate in public and charter
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump announced Monday he wants to change the shape of elections in the United States and eliminate mail-in voting and voting machines. In a post on Truth Social the president said he would “lead a movement” to get rid of mail-in ballots, and get rid of voting machines. Trump made
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) With Attorney General Andrew Bailey set to head to Washington, D.C., this September to work for the FBI after being tapped by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Gov. Mike Kehoe has appointed the state’s first female Speaker of the House. Kehoe said Tuesday that Catherine Hanaway will take over
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The University of Missouri sent out its first MU Alert to students since move-in began for the 2025-2026 school year Monday night.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 19,000 Columbia Public School students made their way back into the classrooms for the first day of the 2025-26 school year Tuesday morning. Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Jeff Klein told he’s excited and that this is a great opportunity as he begin this new position. “Our focus this year is on
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Pope Leo XIV has chosen the Rev. Ralph O’Donnell as the Bishop-select for the Diocese of Jefferson City, according to a press release. The Diocese held a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Cathedral of St. Joseph on W. Main Street in Jefferson City. O’Donnell spoke to a fraction
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