Year after year, schools across South Carolina have dealt with challenges finding qualified, certified teachers, as the state’s educator shortage keeps growing to unprecedented levels.
Each year, hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money are divvied up and sent to communities across South Carolina, with zero public hearings, no open debate, and little oversight.
Republican women from the Midlands who lost their Senate primaries say they have no regrets about votes to block a near-total abortion ban from becoming law in the Palmetto State.
The South Carolina General Assembly met for what is expected to be the final day of the 2024 session Wednesday, taking up a flurry of bills and giving several lawmakers a chance to say goodbye.
Sen. Nikki Setzler is set to deliver a farewell speech from the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon, ending his run as the longest-serving senator in South Carolina history.
A United States District Judge granted South Carolina’s request to temporarily block President Joe Biden’s student loan repayment plan, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
The runoff election in Lexington County that’s been garnering the most attention is the race for SC. Senate District 23 between incumbent Sen. Katrina Shealy and Carlisle Kennedy.
A budget compromise reached by a small group of lawmakers Friday means South Carolina will accelerate a planned income tax cut, raise the salaries of all teachers and state employees and send more money to adult and juvenile prisons.
The race for South Carolina Senate District 22, which is currently held by one of six sister Senators, Mia McLeod, is heating up. Now two candidates are left vying for the Democratic nomination and will face off in the upcoming run offs.
Republican candidate for Charleston County Sheriff Greg Kitchens was once accused of beating a suspect when he worked for the department he’s now running to lead, according to court records.
Who’s in charge at the South Carolina State House has major implications for what legislation is enacted and how it affects South Carolinians’ everyday lives.
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
As Senator Katrina Shealy and Carlisle Kennedy look ahead to a run off based on the results from the June 11 primary, WIS spoke with both candidates and it became evident quite quickly they disagree on many issues.
Women and girls make up slightly more than half of South Carolina’s population, but next year, there could be as few as two female members in the state’s 46-person Senate.
Senator Dick Harpootlian hosted a press conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning to address the results of Tuesday’s race for the District 26 Senate seat.
Four Democrats are competing against one another for former Representative Russell Ott’s seat as he takes a chance at run for the newly-redrawn District 26.
Jay Koon, the current Lexington County sheriff, is facing two challengers for the June 11 primaries. They’re both retired cops who plan to come out of retirement if elected.
State Senator Deon Tedder, D-Charleston, won his Democratic primary days after the S.C. Attorney General’s Office lifted a key redaction in an incident report that identified him as a suspect in a Columbia rape.
Sorry is not enough: That’s why representatives of a newspaper in England are visiting the Lowcountry and places around the globe where the paper played a role in the enslavement of Africans, trying to turns words into actions.
The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office is investigating Sen. Deon Tedder, D-Charleston, more than two years after an incident report lists him as the suspect in a rape.