TONIGHT: Fog developing late, mostly clear and mild with lows in the lower 60s. TOMORROW: Morning fog followed by mostly sunny skies. Highs in the mid-80s. EXTENDED: With light winds, clear skies, and high relative humidity we will likely see fog again in the morning, could be more widespread in some spots. Tomorrow afternoon could
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You might have noticed the days getting shorter as summer comes to an end. The amount of daylight in mid-August in Central Missouri is about 13 and a half hours, compared to nearly 15 hours on the solstice just two months ago. The change in daylight affects our lives in many ways, altering what people
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia’s Office of Violence Prevention is considering adding two “community navigation liaisons” to help defuse problems on the city’s public transit. “What this program does is it puts individuals on the transit lines with the driver to de-escalate and to actually navigate folks to services so that they’re not,
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TODAY: Mostly sunny and warm with highs in the low to mid-80s and a light breeze from the northeast. TONIGHT: Skies remain mostly clear overnight as low temperatures fall to the lower 60s. EXTENDED: Sunshine persists on Friday as highs remain in the mid-80s. A cold front will approach from the northwest on Saturday, bringing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education approved Thursday a decrease in property tax rate for Columbia Public Schools. For the 2025-26 school year, the tax rate is dropping by nearly 16 cent, meaning property owners will pay CPS $5.55 for every $1,000 of assessed value in property taxes for the year. However, due
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football’s quarterback competition will officially roll into the 2025 season, as head coach Eli Drinkwitz announced that both graduate transfer Beau Pribula and returner Sam Horn will play in the season opener versus Central Arkansas. “I informed the team this afternoon that both quarterbacks will play in the first game. I
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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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