Victoria Hansen
Reporter, ProducerVictoria Hansen is our Lowcountry connection covering the Charleston community, a city she knows well. She grew up in newspaper newsrooms and has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. Her first reporting job brought her to Charleston where she covered local and national stories like the Susan Smith murder trial and the arrival of the Citadel’s first female cadet.
An opportunity to anchor the news for an ABC affiliate took her to Nashville, Tennessee. But summer vacations were always spent in Charleston. She moved back in 2006 to the city she calls home to anchor and report again at the tv station where she began.
Victoria has volunteered and served as a spokesperson for numerous nonprofits. She has been honored with multiple Emmys as well as a Community Service Award from the South Carolina Broadcasters Association. It is her passion for community service that brings her to South Carolina Public Radio.
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The South Carolina Shrimpers Association has filed an amended federal lawsuit in Charleston, naming more than 2 dozen restaurants it alleges falsely advertises locally caught shrimp. -
Authorities arrest a former Beaufort County man in 2-year-old missing persons case. -
As Charleston marks the 10-year anniversary of one of the nation's most horrific hate crimes, the community looks back and asks, "what's still needed to heal?" -
Authorities say a "cartel after party" in the Lowcountry led them to dozens of undocumented immigrants including alleged gang members, an international murder suspect and potential human trafficking victims. -
The Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force relies on volunteers and local partnerships to help victims of sex and labor trafficking find better lives. -
From a new deal to divulge tax information to a renewed, local agreement with ICE, Lowcountry immigrants struggle with the daily fear of deportation. -
A fixture in the Charleston legal community, Gedney Howe lll is remembered as, "an incredible individual who just happened to be a lawyer.” -
AccuWeather predicts as many as six named storms impacting the U.S. as it releases its hurricane forecast. -
Former councilman Mike A. Brown pleads not guilty in a wide ranging, federal corruption investigation even as former, fellow councilmembers accept plea agreements in exchange for their cooperation. -
Four people have pleaded guilty, four more will be arraigned in year-long corruption investigation the FBI says snared three North Charleston city councilmembers and their associates.
