COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Senate voted to expand a 26-year-old law originally passed to keep Confederate monuments in place. The bill introduced by Sen. Danny Verdin, R-Laurens, and co-sponsored by 31 other Republicans would extend the protections under a portion of state law commonly called the Heritage Act to all memorials on public property […]

COLUMBIA — Six months after senators rejected what would have been the nation’s strictest abortion ban, another panel of South Carolina senators advanced a bill that would still prohibit abortions from the beginning of a pregnancy but impose less severe penalties. A subcommittee with a different composition of senators rejected a harsher version in November. […]

COLUMBIA — Former South Carolina Chief Justice Don Beatty overcame criticism that he’s a Democrat to win a seat on the governing board of his alma mater. The General Assembly elected the state’s retired top judge to the South Carolina State University Board of Trustees in a closer-than-usual vote Wednesday. With 150 legislators attending the […]

South Carolina continues to make improvements in education with the predominant publicized change being the increase in the minimum starting salaries of teachers. That’s intended, in part, to encourage more people to consider education as their profession. While this is a necessary first step, there is much more that needs to be done. So much […]

COLUMBIA — Students acting out in class, sometimes to the point of attacking teachers, is causing educators to quit. How to protect teachers while also providing students the education they need is still a question, advocates and legislators said Tuesday. Legislators attempted to address it with a House bill that would require schools to remove […]

Backstage compiled a list of movies and TV shows casting in Greenville.

Backstage compiled a list of movies and TV shows casting in Columbia.

Backstage compiled a list of movies and TV shows casting in Charleston, South Carolina.

LAURENS — A solar panel manufacturer pledges to invest $350 million in its first plant in South Carolina and employ 564 people. Suniva announced Tuesday plans to lease a 620,000-square-foot building in an industrial park on the north end of Laurens. The deal, which South Carolina Commerce Secretary Harry Lightsey called a “significant win for […]

Stacker compiled the most popular baby names for boys of the 1990s in South Carolina using data from the Social Security Administration.

The League of Women Voters was established 106 years ago in large part to promote the right and ability of girls and women to have a full voice in political decisions affecting their private and public lives. We continue to do so in opposing S.1095, introduced April 1 in the South Carolina Senate. The bill’s […]

COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s state-owned utility company hopes to know by the first half of 2028 whether a $2.7 billion deal to revive the state’s failed nuclear expansion will officially go through. Santee Cooper reached an initial agreement in December with New York investment firm Brookfield Asset Management for the purchase of two partially built […]

The Medical University of South Carolina’s hospital system is seeking donations to help fund a more than $1 billion top-tier cancer center proposed for downtown Charleston. MUSC Health hopes to raise $250 million from private donors to help pay for the planned new cancer hospital, it announced in launching last week the largest fundraising campaign […]

COLUMBIA — The seventh Republican to join the race to be South Carolina’s next governor said she’s running to save taxpayers money on social safety net programs. Jacqueline DuBose is the owner of a Hartsville cleaning company who also drives a bus for the Darlington County School District. The 61-year-old mother of four adult children […]

COLUMBIA — The potential need to track down birth certificates, marriage licenses, and other name-changing records has gotten a lot of attention lately due a congressional fight over what’s dubbed the SAVE America Act. Such proof of identity is already needed for a REAL ID. In South Carolina, replacing the documents could take weeks and […]

Emily Kapszukiewicz has spent her career in health care — earning a master’s degree in applied economics and running multimillion-dollar programs. But when the Oregon health care executive tried to invest her own savings in a health care venture fund aligned with her life’s work, the federal government said no. She fell $150,000 short of […]

COLUMBIA — One of the Republicans trying to unseat U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from his right flank dropped out Friday and endorsed another GOP challenger who’s pitched himself as a truer conservative. The departure of Charleston attorney Paul Dans leaves Graham in a six-way GOP primary June 9. Three Democrats and three minor-party candidates also […]

COLUMBIA — Several South Carolina GOP officials said Friday that all high schools should have a student chapter of Turning Point USA, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk. South Carolina’s not doing anything to require or incentivize chapters of Turning Point USA’s Club America. But as encouragement, Gov. Henry McMaster designated Friday as Turning […]

COLUMBIA — A candidate for agriculture commissioner, who got President Donald Trump’s endorsement before he even entered the race, has broken fundraising records for the typically low-profile position with the help of some of South Carolina’s biggest names. Cody Simpson, former agriculture adviser to Gov. Henry McMaster, collected almost $410,000 in 49 days, plus received […]

I didn’t intend to spend ten years searching for one man’s name. My obsession began in a tidal creek where I went to swim in South Carolina. It was the summer I was pregnant with my fourth child …