TONIGHT: Overnight lows cool to the mid-30s with patchy fog possible. Winds remain out of the southwest at 5-10 mph. TOMORROW: Saturday welcomes a warm-up with highs into the lower 70s. Skies remain mostly sunny as winds ramp up to 10-15 mph by the afternoon hours. Wind gusts up to 28 mph remain possible. EXTENDED:
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Fulton High School will begin offering a course next year for students interested in firefighting as a career.
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Wildfires have been cropping up more across Mid-Missouri recently as dry conditions continue. Heading into early spring is one of the worst times for fires locally as dead vegetation can burn and be swept around by spring winds. This year’s drought has especially contributed to dry fuels in the area that can easily spread blazes
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Britt Reid, a former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach and son of head coach Andy Reid, had his sentence in a drunken-driving crash that severely injured a young girl commuted by the governor Friday.
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THIS AFTERNOON: Temperatures will be mild with clouds lingering and south winds. Expect highs in the low 50s. TONIGHT: Skies clear overnight, allowing temperatures to fall into the 30s. EXTENDED: Saturdays will already be well above average warming to nearly 70 degrees. More south winds bring us into the 80s under sunny skies on Sunday.
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Police on Friday said a wound a man suffered the night before was not from a bullet but from something else.
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TODAY: Temperatures will be near Thursday’s, with clouds lingering and south winds. We expect highs in the low 50s. TONIGHT: Skies clear overnight, and winds calm. Temperatures fall into the 30s. EXTENDED: Some patchy fog may be possible Saturday morning, but not likely for most. Partly cloudy skies return through the day. South winds will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Women’s Basketball’s losing streak has reached 10 consecutive games after the Tigers fell to Vanderbilt 68-61 on senior night. Thursday night’s contest was Mizzou’s final home game of the regular season. The Tigers honored their four seniors, Hayley Frank, Mama Dembele, Abby Feit and Micah Linthacum, with a pregame ceremony and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia will hold an open house next week regarding the construction of a new Municipal Services Center. According to a Thursday press release from the city, the Municipal Services Center master concept plan includes a salt storage building, storage for snowplows and salt distribution equipment, vehicle parking, an office, electric vehicle charging stations
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A lieutenant working in the Cooper County Sheriff’s Office was charged Wednesday with manslaughter in the October death of an inmate from untreated diabetes.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The True/False Film Fest kicked off Thursday in Columbia. The annual festival takes place in downtown Columbia Thursday through Sunday. Thirty-one feature films and 25 short films were picked out of about 1,400 submissions, according to a previous press release from the festival. A spokesperson for the Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds with a few showers after midnight. Lows in the mid-30s. TOMORROW: Decreasing clouds as showers exit early. Late day sunshine with highs in the mid-50s. EXTENDED: Clouds start to increase tonight ahead of another storm system that moves to our south bringing a chance for a few showers overnight. Any chance for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eye ointments sold at Walmart and CVS The Food and Drug Administration has recalled four eye ointments sold at Walmart and CVS. The recalls comes as the FDA says eye ointments were produced at a facility that may have been unsanitary. The affected eye ointments include Equate’s General and Stye Lubricant Eye
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TODAY: Thursday afternoon welcomes highs into the lower 50s with partly cloudy skies. Winds remain out of the south at 8-12 mph with gusts up to 18 mph. TONIGHT: Overnight lows cool into the mid-30s as a mixture of rain and wet snow begins after midnight. These showers look to exit after six am with
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Public Safety Committee voted Thursday morning to not extend the burning date for yard waste. Jefferson City Fire Department Chief Matt Schofield said the department has received many calls from residents with questions and concerns about open burning. Schofield stated that the biggest challenge the department runs into
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TODAY: Thursday is a return to normal for late February, as we leave meteorological winter, and look to meteorological spring. We’ll see the day start clear, but high clouds move in from the south, leading to a gradual increase in opaqueness of the sky. We’ll likely be mostly cloudy by the afternoon, but some sunshine
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When calling the police, people typically expect a speedy response, but that’s not always the case — or even possible — as staffing shortages across the country continue to affect police departments, including Columbia’s.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some Columbia officials are planning a trip to Omaha, Nebraska, to look into a violence prevention program that could be implemented in Columbia. Assistant City Manager Matt Unrein told ABC 17 News on Tuesday night that he plans to focus on public safety in his role. As part of this, Unrein said
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If a shutdown happened, food assistance wouldn’t be affected — at least for a little while.
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The Smokehouse Creek Wildfire continues to spread thanks to high winds and drought like conditions over the Texas Panhandle. Over 5000,000 acres has burned in North Texas as a result of wildfires that continue to rage on with little to no progress on containment. Over 1,000 people have been affected by these fires affected 621
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