South Carolina lawmakers will hold hearings this spring on a bill to split up the state's sprawling public health and environmental agency. A proposal by Senate President Harvey Peeler Tuesday would separate the Department of Health and Environmental Control into two new cabinet-level agencies.
Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor, congressman and one-time presidential candidate, is going to work for a lobbying firm. Shumaker Advisors announced Tuesday that Sanford would be joining the firm, working from Charleston.
The Department of Health and Environmental Control wants your help tracking the West Nile virus. Now through November 30, DHEC officials say if you find any dead birds, submit them to the department for testing. Specifically, DHEC says they are looking for dead crows, blue jays, house finches and house sparrows.
On Tuesday, Governor Henry McMaster announced that $6 million in the Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER) funds will go towards establishing eight community computer labs throughout the state. The governor says the funds were awarded to the University of South Carolina, who will partner with Benedict College to create these Apple computer labs.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control released the state's latest coronavirus data as of Monday.
(CNN) -- All eyes are on Minneapolis where the highly anticipated trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin is now underway. Chauvin is facing manslaughter and murder charges for the death of George…
Columbia, SC (the pandemic may still be looming - but it won't stop students with school of music from honoring front line workers. Each night a concert will recognize 10 people from right here…
Tuesday is National Doctor's Day. In honor of our frontline healthcare workers, The Blood Connection will donate $5 to Doctors Without Borders for every blood donation given Tuesday.
The federal government has denied South Carolina's request to skip formal in-person testing at the end of the school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.
Officials with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control say hospitalizations from COVID-19 are on the decline, in part, they say, because of the state’s monoclonal antibody program. Officials say the antibody treatment directly blocks COVID-19 effects in someone already infected by the virus.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control released the state's latest coronavirus data as of Sunday.
The South Carolina House is taking the week off and the Senate will take a long Easter weekend.
The South Carolina Senate has passed a bill to fine people who don't get over from the left lane of a three-lane highway when overtaken by traffic.
Salvage teams on Monday set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal.
Engineers on Monday “partially refloated” the colossal container ship that continues to block traffic through the Suez Canal
Myrtle Beach, SC (WPDE) The COVID vaccine in South Carolina is opening to nearly everyone. Starting next week South Carolinians 16 and older will be eligible to get the shot. Friday afternoon…
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The coin trading world has a new gold standard with the $8.4 million sale at auction of the only known 1822 half eagle $5 piece in private hands. Coin experts confirmed the coin that traded…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Unemployed South Carolinians will have to prove they are looking for work if they want to keep receiving jobless benefits starting next month. The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce had suspended the twice-weekly mandatory…
In a statement released Friday, Governor Henry McMaster announced that all South Carolinians 16-years-old and up will be eligible to receive their COVID-19 vaccine, beginning March 31. The governor says those 16 and older can begin making appointments on Wednesday.
