Columbia’s seven city council members are beginning the final day of their two-day retreat with department heads and city manager De’Carlon Seewood at Camdenton’s Old Kinderhook. Mayor Barbara Buffaloe says the retreat is all about relationships. “I don’t need 7-0 votes on Mondays, that would be nice. But I just need to make sure that […]

An attorney who represents Columbia in the Missouri House is considering filing legislation that would ban teens from being able to purchase semiautomatic weapons in Missouri. State Rep. David Tyson Smith (D-Columbia) made his announcement in a Thursday Twitter post. 18 students and two teachers were killed in this week’s deadly shooting at a rural […]

The 95th annual Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony will take place on Memorial Day morning at the Boone County Courthouse in downtown Columbia. Monday morning’s ceremony begins at 9 at the plaza, at Eighth and Walnut. That’s just in front of the courthouse. Columbia’s community band and the Boone County Fire Protection District Pipe and Drums […]

A congresswoman who represents Columbia on Capitol Hill backs a plan to arm guards in schools. U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Harrisonville), a former teacher who’s running for the U.S. Senate, spoke to KSDK Channel 5 in St. Louis. She is reacting to this week’s deadly mass shooting in rural Texas, where at least 19 children […]

Missouri’s attorney general has filed a civil lawsuit against “Affordable Fence” in Boone County, alleging that contractor Joseph Murray violated Missouri consumer protection laws. Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s lawsuit alleges that Affordable Fence took advance payments in 2020 from at least four Missourians for fencing and fence installation that never happened. Schmitt says those four […]