A look inside the new Wellstar Columbia County Medical Center in Grovetown. The hospital is expected to open next year.

Two teenagers were seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash Thursday on Jones Road in Pettis County, according to a ...

A late night shooting Saturday at a home operating as an Airbnb is under investigation, according to the Columbia Police Department. Just before midnight, officers responded to a report of a shooting ...

CMS (Ret) Osgood Woodrow (Woody) Fountain, Jr of Columbia, MO left to go to his Heavenly home on November 8, 2025, to spend an eternal life with his father, mother, sister and brother. He was 83 years ...

In the U.S., 280 hospitals have a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS. The Healthcare-Associated ...

This is the third year that Newsweek has partnered with Statista Inc, the respected global data research firm, to reveal the World's Best Hospitals— and it may be our most important ranking yet. As ...

The world's hospitals have been the front line in medicine's constantly evolving war against COVID-19 for two years now. According to the experts who helped guide the results of our annual ranking of ...

In 2022, the American Nurses Credentialing Center unveiled the Magnet with Distinction program to recognize the world’s highest performing Magnet organizations. Since then, 58 hospitals in the U.S.

Almeta Crayton was Columbia's first Black councilwoman. A previous version of this story misidentified her. The organizers of Columbia’s annual community Thanksgiving dinner are hoping for more ...