The Columbia City Council also approved an increase to parking meter rates for downtown streets.

The senator from Missouri said the large military installation with a long history of training soldiers and military law enforcement should be used to help ICE.

A new Missouri law established the Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls Task Force to help find ways to reduce violence against Black women and girls.

Residents of The Brooks neighborhood say the triplexes would create traffic and parking problems.

Missouri voters will decide the fate of changes to the initiative petition process next year, while a campaign to put the congressional map on the 2026 ballot are already underway.

While announcing the National Guard would go to Memphis next, President Donald Trump said the head of Union Pacific asked him to also deploy troops to St. Louis.

A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

For the first time in decades, the U.S. has decertified Colombia as a drug control partner — a symbolic blow to one of Washington's closest allies in Latin America.

President Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists, accusing them of harming his business and personal reputation.

The 40 international photojournalists who take part in the annual Missouri Photo Workshop (now in its 77th year) have exactly one week and 400 frames to tell profound, intimate and respectful stories in a specifically chosen town in Missouri. Director Brian Kratzer tells us how it all comes together on today's show! September 16, 2025

Services for Independent Living (SIL) is a 45-year-old non-profit dedicated to empowering people with disabilities, seniors, and veterans to better integrate into the community. On today's show, executive director Patrick Lee tells us more about their "Senior Connect" program, created because "social isolation is a serious problem for our seniors." September 15, 2025

What makes a good lie? These guys know. They're members of The Liars Club, and they let us sit in on the conversation during their regular Thursday morning meet-up at Crane’s Country Store in “in beautiful downtown Williamsburg”! September 12, 2025

According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, August droughts will likely have an effect on when leaves change and drop.

The Progress Awards honors people and organizations making a positive impact in Columbia across nine unique categories: arts, healthcare, sustainability, social justice, entrepreneurship, education, volunteerism, nonprofit, and the Sherman Brown Jr. Award. Columbia Missourian executive editor Elizabeth Stephens says, "we want to find the people that maybe you don't know are working behind the scenes and doing some great things for our community." September 11, 2025

The sidewalk between Fourth and Fifth Street on Broadway will be partially closed for several weeks to accommodate repairs.