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Multiple organizations in Mid-Missouri have changed mask wearing and social distancing guidelines.

Columbia Public Schools, local universities and colleges among organizations to lift mask requirements COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several organizations including Mizzou and Columbia Public Schools will be lifting their mask requirements in the coming days. According to a news release from the Columbia city managers office, several establishments are changing their COVID-19 policies. Starting June 1, masks will no longer be required in city or county buildings. Both the city and county still advise pe...

COLUMBIA — Multiple organizations have changed mask wearing and social distancing guidelines.  This comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions new recommendations for fully vaccinated individuals and low case rates with an increasing vaccination rate in Boone County.  "With more people receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, it will become safer for everyone to begin enjoying activities like school and community engagement in a more normal way," Columbia Mayor Brian Treec...

Columbia voters are likely to see a local sales tax on internet purchases go to the ballot in either April or August 2022. That was the general consensus of the Columbia City Council on Wednesday, when it met for a marathon work session to set the stage for figuring out a city budget for fiscal 2022, which begins Oct. 1. Both the city and Boone County for years have longed to put a tax on online sales on the ballot, given the sales tax revenue theyve been losing to internet purchases. Any tax l...

If youve gotten vaccinated, starting in June, experiences around Columbia and Boone County will start to feel a lot closer to the "normal" the city, county and country as a whole have been craving since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The City of Columbia on Thursday announced several changes regarding masking and social distancing requirements around the city and county, including in K-12 schools, local colleges and government spaces. "As community partners, we continue to recommend we...

A former board member feels that the Columbia City Council is not doing enough to bring more diversity to the Citizens Police Review Board. COLUMBIA - During last Monday’s Columbia City Council meeting, an issue involving the lack of diversity within the city’s Citizens Police Review Board was brought up by Cornellia Williams, a longtime Columbia resident and former member of the review board itself. “Bill Davis, Baxter Nickels, Daryll Smith and I were part of the board in previo...

COLUMBIA - After more than a decade of planning, work is set to begin on the long-awaited extension of Discovery Parkway that will create a new major thoroughfare in southeast Columbia. Construction is set to begin this spring and will connect Gans Road to the intersection of New Haven and Rolling Hills roads. The parkway now stretches less than a mile from Highway 63 to Gans Road. The extension will go north of the highway and past MU’s South Farm Research Center. The connector “basi...

The Columbia Police Department along with community members cut the ribbon Wednesday on the Molly Thomas Bowden Community Policing Center.

4:22 p.m.: Boone County reports 10 new cases The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health & Human Services reported 10 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of active cases to 66. According to the Missouri vaccine dashboard, an estimated 45.2% of Boone Countys 180,463 residents have received at least one vaccine dose.  149,107 total doses administered of a vaccine 81,545 COVID-19 vaccine regimen activated 69,380 COVID-19 vaccine regimen completed 8,414 d...

Starting Wednesday, businesses in Columbia will be able to set their own guidelines on masks and social distancing.  Boone County Health Director Stephanie Browning and Columbia Mayor Brian Treece announced last week that the city would not extend the current health order after it expires at 11:59 a.m. on May 12. This is due to declining COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.  The Columbia/Boone County Health Department said it will give recommendations rather than orders.  “W...