Columbia, SC (WOLO)--- City of Columbia leadership is looking for ways to strengthen the state's response to the pandemic and other health-related issues. During Tuesdays city council meeting, councilman Ed McDowell introduced the…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)--Within hours of the South Carolina's Supreme Court's opinion that UofSC's mask mandate did not violate a state proviso which prevents schools from mandating masks, University President Dr. Harris Pastides re-instated a…
IRMO, SC (WOLO) - Lexington Richland School District 5 has announced it will not require masks in its schools, despite a county-wide mask mandate passed Monday by the Richland County Council. The Richland County Council passed a mask mandate for…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) - The possibility of a mask mandate is on the table for a Richland County school district. The Richland School District Two board voted 6-1 Monday for its attorneys to explore its legal options when it comes…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) - All students and staff in Richland School District One will be required to wear masks in all schools, administrative buildings, and school buses. The Richland One Board of School Commissioners made the decision at a meeting…
Columbia, SC (WOLO) -- A group of South Carolina Senators want lawmakers to come back to the statehouse for a special session to reconsider a budget proviso that aims to keep school districts from being able to put mask requirements…
West Columbia, SC (Associated Press) -- -A South Carolina pharmaceutical company that has offered covid-19 vaccines since February -- will now require all of its own employees to get the shot.…
Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution through the Senate early Wednesday on a party-line 50-49 vote.
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) - The heads of both chambers of the South Carolina Statehouse have taken issue with the city of Columbia's school mask mandate and have asked the State Attorney General to take action. A…
WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior Federal Trade Commission official is criticizing Facebook's move to shut down the personal accounts of two academic researchers and terminate their probe into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. In a letter…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) - The South Carolina Department of Education announced Thursday it has hired former Lexington-Richland 5 Superintendent Dr. Christina Melton. Melton resigned suddenly in June after having been named the Superintendent of the Year. The former superintendent will…
Columbia, SC (WOLO)--- The Mayor of Columbia has declared a state of emergency -- and he's primarily focused on masks in schools. This as case numbers of COVID and…
Columbia, SC (WOLO) -- a small group of South Carolina senators are in discussions on how to spend two and half billion dollars of federal COVID-19 relief. The Senate American Rescue Plan…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) - The University of South Carolina announced Friday it would immediately begin requiring face coverings inside campus buildings. The University cited low vaccine uptake statewide and high disease transmission rates in Richland County as reason for the…
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