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Columbia Turf owner Bill McWilliams is not a spur-of-the-moment kind of guy, despite his low-key explanation about how he came to buy a lawn-care business from a couple...

One day in early August 1965, shortly after my return from a meeting on the West Coast, City Manager Don Allard called me into his office. “Guess what?”...

Jon “T.K” Livingston wants to raze his three aging rental properties just east of the intersection of Locust and Hitt streets and erect a mixed-use building. The structure,...

The Wabash Depot addition is expected to be ready later this summer, just in time to celebrate large increases in bus ridership this year, says Ken Koopmans, transportation...

The Jefferson City Council welcomed four new members—and possibly a sea change in municipal government— April 16. In many ways, the new council looks more like its neighbor...

The Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City has had a long and colorful history since it housed its first prisoner in 1836, when Andrew Jackson was president. On...

Shubhra Gangopadhyay has big plans for turning the University of Missouri’s tiniest research projects into local jobs. Gangopadhyay heads the International Center for Nano/Microsystems and Nanotechnology and supervises...

Equinosis Principals: Kevin G. Keegan, associate professor of equine surgery at the University of Missouri-Columbia; Missouri Innovation Center; Incubation Factory, St. Louis Current status: Prototype. Filed for preliminary...

Immvac Inc. is a $50 million-plus veterinary pharmaceutical company with more than 40 employees doing business around the world, an inspiring example of what can happen when academia...

Some people say it’s bad to mix business with your personal life. For Dean Jones, owner of Jones Beltone Hearing Centers, nothing could be further from the truth....