South Carolina senators have started what will likely be a debate over several days about whether to get rid of a state law that requires hospitals and other medical clinics to get permission to expand or buy most major medical equipment.
Police say two women are facing felony charges for an incident that included throwing glitter on a man at his apartment in Florida.
DHEC reports a 52.6% increase in new COVID-19 positive patients hospitalized in just the past week.
State senators now have another map to consider just when the South Carolina General Assembly appears ready to finish drawing new U.S. House districts. This latest map would make radical changes favorable to Democrats in all seven congressional districts.
A state lawmaker is calling for in-home COVID-19 tests to be provided to every household in South Carolina.
DHEC reports 11,729 new cases of COVID-19 and 45 additional virus related deaths in South Carolina.
Governor Henry McMaster received his COVID-19 booster shot Tuesday afternoon.
DHEC reports 8,149 new cases of COVID-19 and 10 additional deaths in the state.
Chapin, S.C. (WOLO)--The interim superintendent of a Midlands school district now has the job full time. Monday evening members of the Lexington-Richland 5 school board appointed Dr Akil Ross as its next superintendent. Ross took over for Dr. Christina Melton…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) - Bell Memorial Baptist Church wants answers after its property was vandalized twice in the past two weeks. Johnnie Mae Rich-Butler is Pastor Leeroy Butler’s wife, she says there…
New congressional maps for South Carolina that are not much different than those drawn more than a decade ago are on their way to the floor of the state House. The House Judiciary Committee passed them Monday, but several Democratic committee members voted against them.
DHEC updated its coronavirus guidance for K-12 schools in response to the latest virus data and trends.
Gov. Henry McMaster's suggestion for how South Carolina spends billions of extra dollars contains some familiar requests he hasn't got in his five years in office, like cutting income taxes. But the governor is sprinkling in some new proposals, such as $2,000 bonuses for school bus drivers, $3 million to expand election audits and $100 million to South Carolina's aging health lab.
DHEC reports 12,827 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 additional virus related deaths in South Carolina.
South Carolina's biggest ceremony to honor the life of civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. will be held virtually again because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The King Day at the Dome event also was held virtually in 2021 because of the pandemic.
South Carolina's prison director has won a national award for turning around an agency that was near the bottom in the county in funding, salaries and the rate of inmates who return to prison.
His lawyers say Murdaugh has no money anymore and can't afford the $7 million bond. He's been jailed since his arrest in October, and a different judge in a civil suit froze his assets in November.
South Carolina saw an almost 50% increase in the number of human trafficking victims reported in 2021. That's according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson in the newly released Human Trafficking Task Force Report.
South Carolina's governor is proposing a simplification of the formula the state uses to pay its portion for public schools.
South Carolina lawmakers return to Columbia on Tuesday with a lot of money to spend. The General Assembly has some $4 billion extra to spend between the booming economy, federal COVID-19 relief money and money set aside in case the economy crashed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
