Charleston

Louise Ravenel Dougherty was a longtime Charlestonian who fought for the rights of physically and mentally disabled people well before there was a national push to do so. She died Oct. 15 at the age of 94.

Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey share stories and recipes of the foods that make the South Carolina Jewish table in a new cookbook, "Kugels and Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina."

Veteran journalist Adam Parker has covered just about everything for Charleston's Post and Courier newspaper, though he has spent most of his time writing about race, religion, and the arts. Us: A Journalist's Look at the Culture, Conflict and Creativity of the South (2022, Evening Post Books) is a collection of in-depth articles published over the course of nearly 20 years, and it reveals the breadth and scope of Parker's uncanny ability to pull back the scrim and take a hard look at ourselves and our community.Adam joins us to talk about his life and work, and to share some of the stories that he has written.

Despite a more than 9 foot, near-record high tide, the Lowcountry escaped Hurricane Idalia relatively unscathed.

Idalia is expected to arrive in South Carolina tonight as either a tropical storm or weakened hurricane.

Charleston braces for flooding with Hurricane Idalia's arrival, anticipated to coincide with king tide.

“R” is for Riley, Joseph P., Jr., Legislator, mayor of Charleston. In 1975 he was elected to the first of ten terms as mayor of Charleston.

“R” is for Riley, Joseph P., Jr., Legislator, mayor of Charleston. In 1975 he was elected to the first of ten terms as mayor of Charleston.

A 19-year-old inmate is accused of assaulting a detention center deputy so violently his head was "bouncing off the cement floor".

Unionized dockworkers have the right to staff every job at a new container terminal in Charleston under a federal court decision — but there is no guarantee that a $1 billion loading site that has sat largely idle will soon resume activity.