COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Fire Protection District’s Missouri Task Force One has been supporting statewide flood response operations in Reynolds and Iron counties, where flash flooding overwhelmed roadways, campgrounds and waterways following historic rainfall. BCFPD Chief Doug Westhoff said search teams are moving segment by segment along the Black River. “There are four segments
Continue Reading
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite being the smallest metropolitan city selected to host games in the 2026 World Cup, Kansas City managed to catch the eyes of the world. On Saturday, Kansas City Stadium is set to host its sixth and final World Cup match, as Argentina and Switzerland will take the pitch in quarterfinal
Continue Reading
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Kansas City’s FIFA Fan Fest reached capacity Saturday afternoon as fans gathered to watch the city’s final World Cup quarterfinal match, featuring Argentina and Switzerland. Organizers posted on “X” around 3:30 p.m. that general admission entry to Fan Fest had been temporarily paused because the venue had reached capacity. Premium Garden
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Parts of Mid-Missouri saw another round of rain Saturday morning following severe storms and damaging winds the night before. The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team is tracking a wet Saturday morning before the rain clears up for the rest of the week. An ABC 17 News reporter saw some water-covered roadways in
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A strong storm knocked out power to thousands of customers across mid-Missouri as it rolled through Friday evening. As of 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Columbia Water and Light outage map reported 26 customers without power; down from 124 reported at 10:45 p.m. on Friday. Columbia Water and Light officials had told ABC
Continue Reading
ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) The National Weather Service Office in Springfield confirmed on Friday afternoon that an EF-0 tornado traveled through Rolla for about a minute on Thursday night. The maximum width of the tornado was 200 yards and it traveled more than a half mile from 10:02-03 p.m., the NWS shared on social media. Winds
Continue Reading
ROCKY MOUNT, Mo. (KMIZ) A severe morning storm caused tree damage and a widespread power outage across Morgan County on July 10, and residents spent much of the day preparing for possible storms later at night. In an email to ABC 17 News, Co-Mo Electric Cooperative representative Patrick Wood said at one point nearly 3,000
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Fire Protection District helped get a horse that was down and unable to rise stabilized and loaded for transport to medical care. Firefighters responded to a property on Bowling Lane east of Rangeline Road and New Haven Road, where they found the horse on the ground. Working with a
Continue Reading
JEFFESRON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Police Department required the help of a Missouri State Highway Patrol diving team on Friday after it encountered a “suspicious object” in Binder Lake. Officers were called at 9:42 a.m. Friday to the 300 block of Binder Lake Road for a report of a “suspicious incident,” according to
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Fulton Police Chief Bill Ladwig is retiring. The City of Fulton made the announcement in a Friday press release. Ladwig will end his 26-year career on Aug. 3. The city has completed “an internal interview process” for its next police chief, though the appointment will be announced at a later date, the
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency for the state on Friday because of recent storms and flooding. Kehoe announced on his social media that he signed Executive Order 26-16. Severe weather went through Mid-Missouri on Thursday and continued into Friday morning, with more storms expected to enter the area in
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Representatives of the State of Missouri filed an appeal on Friday to the state’s high court over a recent ruling involving abortion rights Jackson County Judge Jerri Zhang last month in their 20-page ruling struck down a number of restrictions that were in place that were determined to be in violation of
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A swatting call led to a large police response Friday morning in Rolla, the Rolla Police Department wrote on its social media. Police wrote that it responded to “to a report of a domestic disturbance involving a firearm” on Vichy Road. Officers quickly learned the home was vacant and “no disturbance had
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia announced in a Friday press release that it is expanding its parking enforcement devices. The city will start using “wheel immobilization devices,” beginning on Monday. This is in additional to the parking barnacles the city started using last year. The release says it will be used for people
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 has been activated and will be deployed to Sikeston for a flood response, the Boone County Fire Protection District wrote in a Friday morning social media post. BCFPD said it was activated by SEMA to head to the Scott County town “as a Type III Task Force with
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The D.C. Rogers Recreation Area in Fayette has reopened, according to a Thursday social media post from the City of Fayette. D.C. Rogers Lake closed on June 4 after significant rainfall affected the area. Peters Lake closed days before and will remain closed. Previous reporting shows D.C. Rogers Lake need to be lowered
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of people were without power in Morgan County and surrounding counties on Friday morning. There are 4,912 electricity customers without power in Morgan County between Co-Mo Electric Cooperative (2,780) and Ameren (2,132) users. Additionally, 895 Ameren customers in Miller County were without power on Friday morning. Benton County saw 269 Co-Mo
Continue Reading
The City of Columbia had its first in a series of forums over its proposal for a public safety sales tax that would pay for a new Columbia Police Department headquarters at a building formerly owned by IBM. The plan would spend $35 million to convert the building. Do you like the idea? Let us
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County family is asking a judge to stop the county from euthanizing its pit bull, arguing the dog does not meet Missouri’s definition of a dangerous dog and that previous biting incidents occurred only when law enforcement officers entered the family’s property without advance notice. Keith Nilges filed the lawsuit
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe on Thursday signed an online age verification rule into a state law. House Bill 1839 was made official Thursday and now requires age verification for websites that have more than one-third of its content containing sexual material, including social media. The sites would have to use a third-party for
Continue Reading