Summertime is usually busy time for parks and recreation departments. Columbia Parks and Rec Director Mike Griggs joined the CEO Roundtable to talk about the upcoming summer for his department:

Mid-Missouri’s new coronavirus case increases are rising. Boone County reported 25 new positives for the second straight day Wednesday. Active cases went up, to 102, making it the first time since mid-April that the number has been above 100. Hos...

(AP) The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in favor of athletes in the latest case in the decades-long fight over whether and how colleges can compensate their sports stars. The ruling on Monday doesn’t yet address direct payments, which are st...

(AP) The body of a Columbia man has been found in Benton County in west-central Missouri. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that 28-year-old Cody Garrett of Columbia was reported missing by his mother about a week earlier. Deputies were ...

(AP) The Democrats’ expansive elections and voting bill is all but certain to be rejected in a key Senate test vote. The action Tuesday is expected to provide a dramatic example of Republicans’ use of the filibuster to block legislation. It’s als...

A Mexico, Mo. man is dead after a motorcycle crash over the weekend. Police say Richard Dollens’ motorcycle went off the left side of Curtis Road near Mexico High School Saturday night. The bike hit a utility pole guy wire and a guardrail, then landed ...

Columbia got hit by some severe storms that resulted in damage, power outages, and one injury. ABC 17 reports a man was hurt by a falling tree on Cook Avenue during the storms Sunday night. No word yet on how that man is doing. More than 2,000 Boone El...

A Jefferson City woman is dead after getting hit by a boat propeller on the Missouri River. The Highway Patrol said a boat hit something in the water at the Noren River Access near Jefferson City Saturday night. Tanna Henson and Scotty Smallwood were b...

A Fulton man is arrested after an alleged robbery over the weekend. Police say Brad Foutes assaulted a man and took things from him at Hockaday Park just before 1 p.m. Saturday. Investigators say he then ran to a nearby McDonald’s, broke a car window a...

Missouri’s new gun law is causing tension between the state and federal governments. The law would ban local police departments from enforcing federal gun laws. Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt says on Wake Up Columbia says the law’s intention wa...