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Blunt urges approval of Keystone pipeline
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Senator Roy Blunt is continuing to urge lawmakers to support policies that he believes would lower energy costs for Missourians. Blunt visited OATS, a Columbia based transportation service for the elderly, to discuss the impact of rising energy costs on local businesses. “In the Columbia region alone, Oats has had to cancel [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Biologists with the Missouri Department of Conservation hope to contain a brain disease that affects wild deer in a small area of Macon and Linn counties. MDC reports that three adult deer harvested by hunters in northeast Linn County and northwest Macon County showed signs of CWD. The samples came from [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The State of Missouri has launched a new website aiming to increase public awareness about the dangers of tornadoes and tornado safety. Run by the Department of Public Safety and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), StormAware provides information to the public about severe weather, alert systems and how to stay [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The National Weather Service is beginning a pilot program April 2 that will issue what it hopes to be better storm warnings. The National Weather Service offices in Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo., and Topeka and Wichita, Kan., are the five offices participating. The goal is to simplify the [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Turkey hunters in south central Missouri will have to stay away from the Peck Ranch Conservation Area’s refuge for the second straight year. The Missouri Department of Conservation is making the area off limits to hunters during the spring turkey season due to the arrival of another group of elk from [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – State lawmakers are up in arms about a revised federal flood control plan for the Mississippi River that they say would leave many Missourians at risk. The proposed plan from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeks to build levees along the upper Mississippi River at a 500-year flood level. These [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon is once again calling on the federal government to declare a major disaster area for a large portion of the state impacted by severe weather. On Wednesday, Nixon asked that 18 Missouri counties impacted by last week’s deadly string of tornadoes be declared eligible for federal relief benefits. [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – With Missouri’s unusually warm temperatures likely to stay throughout the spring, more storms like the deadly string of tornados that touched down across the southern part of the state could be in store. “It’s hard to predict if we’ll see more storms than average this spring, but the high temperatures will [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In response to Monday’s news that TransCanada would move forward with construction on part of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, Missouri’s Democratic Senator announced her support for the project going forward. “This is good news for American jobs, and a good step toward increasing energy production right here at home,” [...]
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