12+ hour, 23+ min ago  (567+ words) MORNING HEADLINES" |" Up, up and away!" Joint Base Charleston is partnering with Charleston and Mount Pleasant to host Saturday's free 2026 Charleston Airshow that features the soaring acrobatics of the U. S. Navy's Blue Angels. The event, which originally was going to take…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (615+ words) MORNING HEADLINES" |" The S. C. Department of Public Health on Sunday declared the nation's worst measles outbreak since 2000 to be over in the Palmetto State." The last confirmed case of the disease in S. C. was March 15." The disease sickened almost 1, 000 unvaccinated people over…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (480+ words) This is not something shared lightly:" I will discourage my college-age daughters from returning to live in South Carolina as long as venal Republican legislators keep trying to make the state's already barbaric anti-abortion restrictions even stricter. These young women…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (191+ words) After a frantic 24 hours of floor fights, failed votes and quiet backroom dealmaking, the S. C. Senate on Thursday passed a bill to formally legalize and regulate the THC-infused beverages and gummies that have been on store shelves across the state since…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1777+ words) Here are the ten major legislative initiatives we're watching as time runs short. The S. C. Senate stayed in session late Thursday" to pass its version of the 2026-27 state budget, a $15 billion spending blueprint that's broadly aligned with the budget plan that…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (892+ words) With only nine working days left in the 2026 legislative session that officially ends May 14, lawmakers are scrambling to get bills over the finish line before the clock runs out. Adding urgency to that annual mad dash: Because this will be…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (374+ words) Arts lovers will delight in ambitious concerts by legendary musical artists like Yo-Yo Ma and Philip Glass and celebrated dance companies Trisha Brown Dance Company and Akram Khan Company in the midst of buzz-worthy world tours. They'll find regionally resonant…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (772+ words) MORNING HEADLINES" |" Less than a year after state lawmakers passed a sweeping liquor liability law aimed at keeping bars and restaurants open, state senators are now considering putting it on pause, saying it failed to deliver the relief intended." The…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (376+ words) Southern political historian Jack Bass, a celebrated Carolinas newspaperman who graduated to academia and became a widely respected author or co-author of 10 books, died Thursday afternoon at age 91 in hospice care, according to son David Bass of Raleigh, N. C. In 2020, Bass…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (764+ words) There was a time when expressing your affection for soft-rock "70s hits like "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees or "Peg" by Steely Dan would"ve gotten you ostracized, if not beaten up. Those songs are from a…...