Tagged: department of transportation

  Flooding from thunder storms has caused a large number of road closures in mid-Missouri, Thursday.

The director of Missouri's Department of Transportation is taking a medical leave of absence and plans to resign his post.

The department announced Thursday that Kevin Keith's leave is effective immediately and he will resign July 1.

Chief engineer David Nichols will serve as interim director until the state Highways and Transportation Commission appoints a new director. Commission chairman Joe Carmichael says Nichols will remain interim director for at least one year.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Missouri receives $6 million for transportation projects
• Health care measure's language battled over in court
• Quicksand popping up along rivers

Warm temperatures this winter and spring have the Missouri Department of Transportation painting and repairing the roads it was plowing all winter last year.