Post and Courier Beaufort County

02/02/2025

Santee Cooper is trying to find a buyer for the unfinished reactors it abandoned in 2017 at the VC Summer nuclear plant north of Columbia

SC-owned power utility Santee Cooper is trying to find a buyer for the unfinished reactors it abandoned in 2017 at the VC Summer nuclear plant north of Columbia

02/02/2025

Budget requests by Gov. McMaster have "proved to be successful," over the years to stop dogfighting in the state, his office said. But legislatively, there hasn't been a push to increase penalties for the crime.

Henry McMaster has called for dogfighting to stop in the state as governor and Attorney General. He's secured funding more than once, but what more can be done?

02/02/2025

After a loss to No. 13 Texas A&M on Saturday, South Carolina fell to 10-12 and remained winless in the SEC halfway through the 18-game conference schedule.

South Carolina and No. 13 Texas A&M tussled late Saturday night at Colonial Life Arena. The Gamecocks remain in search of their first win in SEC play.

02/02/2025

South Carolina took care of Auburn on Sunday after A'ja Wilson's No. 22 jersey was raised to the rafters of Colonial Life Arena.

Second-ranked South Carolina took care of the Auburn Tigers on Sunday after A'ja Wilson's No. 22 jersey was raised to the rafters of Colonial Life Arena.

02/02/2025

As of today, nobody is actually running to be the next South Carolina governor. Nobody has filed, no PACs have been created, no staff have been hired.

But the race is already on, with personal attacks flying and intrigue growing.

The 2026 South Carolina Governor race has no candidates but it hasn't stopped Congresswoman Nancy Mace from relentlessly attacking Attorney General Alan Wilson.

02/02/2025

Opinion: “DEI” is just this year’s “CRT” — a dogwhistle distraction, writes metro columnist Brian Hicks

S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson joined the DEI attack on Costco, which has become the easy play for politicians pandering for low-information voters.

02/02/2025

Clemson improved to 10-1 in ACC play with a road win at N.C. State. The Tigers have won six straight in conference, rolling into a home back-to-back with Georgia Tech and Duke this coming week.

N.C. State hung around in the second half until Chase Hunter and brother Dillon Hunter helped put the Wolfpack away for the Tigers' sixth straight ACC win.

02/02/2025

Migrant communities in South Carolina are bracing for more federal raids as President Donald Trump seeks to make good on his promise to initiate the largest deportation effort in American history.

Immigrants, advocacy groups, lawyers in South Carolina express fears as they brace for how Trump administration's mass deportation plan could play out here.

02/02/2025

“Not a lot of people can say that. I can share the moment with everyone. It’s going to be truly, truly special.” A'ja Wilson will have her No. 22 jersey raised to the rafters of Colonial Life Arena this afternoon.

A'ja Wilson will have her No. 22 jersey raised to the rafters of Colonial Life Arena on Sunday. Wilson was in town on Saturday to share her thoughts on the honor.

02/02/2025

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01/02/2025

The close-knit community of figure skating will be tested to not only endure the tragedy in Washington, D.C., but to move forward from it, writes our sports columnist Scott Hamilton.

The close-knit community of figure skating will be tested to endure the tragedy in Washington, D.C.. But, as after the Marshall plane crash, it can be done.

01/02/2025

S.C. Chief Justice John Kittredge promised to bring transparency and accountability to the state’s judicial system; six months in, editorial writer Cindi Ross Scoppe talks with him about what he’s done.

John Kittredge has brought more transparency, accountability to South Carolina's Supreme Court, judicial branch, with crackdown on lawyer-legislators, backlogs

01/02/2025

Bowman was declared dead at 6:27, some 23 minutes after state prison staffers injected him with a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital.

Marion Bowman Jr. dies Jan. 31, becomes third man put to death since South Carolina resumed executions. He was convicted of killing young mother Kandee Martin.

31/01/2025

Will more of Bluffton's shrinking wetlands be developed?

Plans for 34 Ulmer Road in the Lowcountry have waffled between conservation and development for years. Will a proposed subdivision move forward in the Wetlands?

31/01/2025

South Carolina has plenty of offbeat rentals for those interested in a staycation, whether it's a train caboose, renovated church or vintage school bus.

South Carolina has dozens of hidden gems if you want a local vacation, including a treehouse in Greenville, a former church in Columbia and a bus in Charleston.

31/01/2025

South Carolina will enter the 2025 season the same way it did 2024. The Gamecocks do not have an identified go-to wide receiver.

Nyck Harbor plans to change that thinking.

Gamecock's Nyck Harbor wants to elevate his game in 2025 which is why he's skipping a major part of his other development to devote himself to conditioning

31/01/2025

Clyburn reasoned that "I tell people all the time, no president of the United States has ever been to your [local] meetings. What gives anyone the authority to step into the White House and say you cannot have that money?"

At a Beaufort-Jasper YMCA groundbreaking in Hardeeville, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn addressed the Trump Administration's rescinded memo freezing federal funding.

31/01/2025

240+ years after a bloody episode of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, an SC County is taking steps to preserve its historic site.

Burch's Mill on the P*e Dee River, where Gen. Francis Marion's South Carolina militia and Micajah Ganey's British loyalists signed a treaty, will be protected.