COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Part of Columbia’s new Opportunity Campus will be open on Wednesday night due to extreme heat in the area. ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Days are in effect through the weekend as the heat index looks to hit triple digits. New Day Columbia will operate the overnight cooling center at 1304 Bowling
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ameren Missouri is seeking to raise electric rates, according to a Wednesday press release from the Public Service Commission. Ameren filed tariff sheets with the PSC on June 26 “seeking a net increase in annual electric base rate revenues of approximately $343 million,” or about $13 per month for the average customer,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A group calling itself the Missouri Licensing Advocacy Group is suing the Missouri attorney general and other state officials to stop an enforcement campaign targeting businesses that operate video gambling machines. The group filed its lawsuit in Cole County last week, saying that Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and Missouri Alcohol and
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) With the new fiscal year set to start on Wednesday, Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday signed a fiscal 2027 state budget of about $50 billion, while vetoing or restricting about half a billion dollars in funding, including money for major local projects. Among those projects are the University of Missouri’s Energy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department announced on a Tuesday evening social media post that it was looking for an at-risk man with dementia. Police were looking for John Linder, 76, of Columbia. He was last seen around 6:15 p.m. in the 200 block of North Stadium Boulevard while driving a dark gray 2025
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (Kmiz) Missouri leaders are getting ready to discuss further restrictions on transgender athletes following Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. The higher court upheld the power of the states to ban transgender athletes from participating in certain sports, ruling that these restrictions do not interfere with Title IX regulations. Missouri state Rep. Brian Seitz
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has sent its proposed “A-F” grading system for school districts to the governor’s office. A Tuesday release from DESE says this submission responds to an executive order signed in January. The release says DESE will give annual grades for districts, school and charter schools.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri saw an increase in the turnover and vacancy rates for nurses in 2025, according to data provided by the Missouri Hospital Association. A report shows the nursing turnover rate was at 18.9% in 2025, compared to 16.1% in 2024, bucking a four-year downward trend. The vacancy rate also increased 10.9% in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) While Americans celebrate 250 years of freedom in July, Missouri will reach 205 years of being a state in August. When Missouri became a state in 1821, it was at the center of a war between America and itself: the Civil War. “Missouri played an important role very early on in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camdenton man was charged with several felonies, including arson, on Monday after he allegedly tried to set a garage and tiny home on fire early Friday. Previn Tauer, 48, was charged in Miller County with two counts of second-degree burglary, two counts of second-degree arson and two counts of first-degree property
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COLUMBIA MO. (KMIZ) With high temperatures expected to continue throughout the week, officials are warning that vulnerable populations can be affected. According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, there were 35 heat-related deaths in the state in 2025. Out of those, five were in hot vehicles, one was occupational and 21 of
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With some FIFA World Cup matches in Kansas City, Colombia has become a satellite city for those games. However, they are not seeing the impact on local businesses as they anticipated.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 29-year-old Rolla woman died in a crash on Sunday in the 21000 block of Route J in Phelps County, according to a Missouri State Highway crash report. The report says the crash occurred when a 2005 Toyota Camry – driven by a 21-year-old Rolla man – was heading southbound when it
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Phelps County coroner announced in a Monday social media post that a car that was left running in a garage on June 19 led to the deaths of five people. Four men and a woman were found dead that day in a home in the 11000 block of Village Circle in
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DEFIANCE, Mo. (KMIZ) His name is on significant landmarks around the Show-Me State and in Boone County, like the Daniel Boone Regional Library or the Daniel Boone Little League Fields. But who was Daniel Boone? While he wasn’t from Missouri, he made the state his home for much of his life, helping to form it
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Budget time is here again for schools, whose fiscal year begins July 1. That means administrators and school boards are facing some thorny outlooks, some worse than others, when it comes to funding. The Missouri General Assembly didn’t provide the funding increase that educators had sought last session, and school districts say that puts them
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Board of Curators on Thursday unanimously passed the fiscal year 2027 budget during its meeting in Springfield. Meeting documents show budgeted revenue from grants and contracts at the Columbia campus is expected to fall 12% from 2026, while S&T in Rolla is expecting a 13% loss from 2026.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The FBI has confirmed in a press release that a man accused in a casino robbery earlier this year in Boonville has been arrested. Hollis Vanleer Jr., 20, was arrested on Wednesday in Bloomington, Illinois. He is charged in the case with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and first-degree assault. Authorities had been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) August voters are set to decide on Amendment 4, which looks to increase the required number of votes needed for a citizen petition to pass. Currently, amendments pass through a simple majority. If approved, Amendment 4 would require a majority vote in all eight of the state’s congressional districts. Previous ballot measures
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) School districts around the state are bracing for budget cuts after the state opted not to increase the public school foundational formula. Now the Department of Elementary and Secondary Schools is short $190 million in revenue, leading some school districts to have to cut back their budgets. Last night, the Southern Boone
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