Jefferson City’s new First Ward councilman takes his seat this evening. Jack Deeken beat Jacob Robinett to win the race. Deeken has long served on the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission. in the only other Jefferson City council race, incumbent Erin Wiseman turned away a challenge from former councilman Bob …

Around 400 volunteers in red T-shirts will be scattered around Jefferson City Sunday to help out with all kinds of tasks. Janet Wear-Enloe is a Co-Chair with Mission JC. She tells KWOS volunteers are still needed and families can work together on cleaning up highways and streams, painting, planting and …

One of Jefferson City’s largest health care providers plans a May 4th grand opening and ribbon-cutting for its new $17-million surgery center on Jefferson City’s West Edgewood. The Jefferson City Medical Group (JCMG) broke ground on the 28,000 square foot project in March. It has four operating rooms, three procedure rooms and two …

You have to love a Missouri lawmaker with a sense of humor. O’Fallon Rep. Tony Lovasco slipped a tongue-in-cheek tribute to 80’s pop star Rick Astley into an omnibus ‘special honors’ bill … Astley may be best known for the viral internet meme known as ‘rick rolling’. A disguised hyperlink …

A woman and her dog are okay after being rescued from a flooded creek near the Cole  – Moniteau County line. The woman drove into flood waters on a creek on Mount Hope Road Thursday. Russellville and Jefferson City firefighters used a boat to get to the woman’s car.

A Miller County man will spend the next several years in prison. Cody Umfleet pleaded guilty to arson, stealing and weapons charges. He admitted to breaking into a Brumley convenience store and setting it on fire in 2020. He was caught after an attempted robbery with the stolen gun.

A collision between an Amtrak train and a pickup truck in mid-Missouri’s Centertown caused traffic issues on Wednesday evening but no injuries. Cole County Sheriff John Wheeler says he’s thankful there were no injuries in Wednesday evening’s collision, which happened at Centertown’s Oak Street crossing. The collision delayed the Amtrak …

A high speed car chase that started in Jefferson City finally ends. The victim told officers his car was taken at gunpoint on Stadium Wednesday morning. The chase that topped 100 miles per hour on Highway 63. Ashland police stopped the car after the driver tried to hit an officer’s …

(AP) — The GOP-led Missouri House on Wednesday voted to allow local elections over whether to ban transgender girls from competing on K-12 girls’ sports teams. House members voted 89-40 in favor of adding Republican Rep. Chuck Bayse’s proposal as an amendment to an elections bill in a late-session attempt …

AP — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office has refiled involuntary manslaughter charges against three men in connection with the sinking of a tourist boat that killed 17 people in 2018. The vehicle, known as a duck boat, sank during a storm shortly after it entered Table Rock Lake near Branson on …