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Determination and sincerity are two of the core values cited by Swift Foods (May 24, 2021 file photo at Swift’s Moberly plant courtesy of Missouri Governor Mike Parson’s Flickr page) The almost $200-million Swift Foods plant that’s being built on Columbia’s Route B is expected to open in early 2023. That’s …

Columbia’s Downtown Leadership Council (DLC) is supporting the purchase and implementation of the FUSUS real-time software platform. The city council is scheduled to vote Monday evening on FUSUS, which is a software platform for law enforcement that allows police to access any public or business-linked camera asset in real-time and …

Missouri Governor Mike Parson briefs reporters and residents in front of the fire-damaged Wooldridge church on October 26, 2022 (file photo courtesy of the Governor’s Facebook page) More than two dozen students at Columbia’s Tolton Catholic high school will travel to rural Wooldridge on Monday morning to help clean up …

The Rocheport bridge over the Missouri River should be up and running by December of 2024. Crews are currently working 12 hour days six days a week. They’ve been working on replacing the bridge since 2021.

A man from Kirksville will spend years in prison after being sentenced in the shooting death of a Mexico Missouri man. Sadiq Moore was found guilty in the killing of Chance Davis in 2020. Two other men faces charges in the death.

Don’t bet that a future employer won’t be able to access records of your marijuana arrest as a kid. Even though the recent passage of the recreational marijuana amendment says all pot bust records will be expunged doesn’t mean those court documents won’t still be on the internet … Representative …

Columbia Regional Economic Development Incorporated (REDI) president Stacey Button says the massive new Swift Foods plant on Route B will open in early 2023. She says they’re currently hiring employees, and that the plant will produce 40-million pounds of food product each year, when it opens. The plant is bringing …

This is the view of eastbound Grindstone Parkway in Columbia, at the Highway 63 interchange (2022 file photo courtesy of MoDOT’s Adam Pulley) A $9-million plan to upgrade south Columbia’s heavily-congested Highway 63 and Grindstone interchange is moving a step closer. Columbia’s city council will first-read an agreement with state …

The $220-million Roy Blunt NextGen facility is located on Mizzou’s campus in Columbia (October 2021 file photo courtesy of Senator Blunt’s Flickr page) Leaders from across Boone County are celebrating numerous successes across the county in the past year.  Boone County commissioners held a municipal government dinner Thursday night in …

Missouri Governor Mike Parson and U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Harrisonville) brief reporters and Wooldridge residents in front of the fire-damaged church on October 26, 2022 (file photo courtesy of the governor’s Facebook page) A state lawmaker who represents mid-Missouri’s Wooldridge says a new nonprofit has been created to focus on …