A driving force behind City Manager Mike Matthes’ proposed 2015-16 fiscal year budget is income inequality here in Columbia, he recently expressed. Matthes said a growing disparity between racial groups...

Dust off your backpacks and break back into your Blackboard accounts; it’s syllabus week again. Not only does this mean there will be some periods of boredom, there will be some moments of stress, too....

Hoss’s Market & Rotisserie prepared 275 pounds of pulled pork and 275 pounds of brisket. Monster brought 1,920 cans of energy drinks. Insomnia Cookies baked 5,000 cookies. Jimmy John’s made nearly...

Hello, friends. I’m Gabriela, your new television columnist! Now, I’m a very talkative person — hence my fitting nickname of Gabby — so I’ll be treating this column as a constructive conversation...

Boone County approved a 75 percent tax break for the Oscar Mayer plant in Columbia on July 8, which will allow them to begin a $114 million expansion project that could start this fall. The money will...

It’s closing hour at the Ellis Library. With trembling fingers, this is where many groggy students have confronted their trek home. Ellis Library is a sanctuary for dedicated students, but the inconvenience...

After reports of sexual harassments, Missouri legislators are reevaluating the intern program at the Missouri Capitol. State Rep. Kip Kendrick, D-Columbia, who is part of a working group established to...

In front of an auditorium of around 80 people, Biomedical Sciences department chair Harold Laughlin honored biomedical science professor Frank Weaver Booth for his “lifelong devotion” to researching...