Richland County

Federal investigators found in a scathing report this week that a large jail in South Carolina vastly underreports the violence occurring behind its walls and lets dozens of inmates go unsupervised for so long that at least two killings of prisoners were reported to jail staff from outside callers.

U.S. Congressman Jim Clyburn joined South Carolina and city of Columbia leaders on Jan. 10, 2025, to formally announce a $204.2 million federal grant to help cover the Assembly Street railway project.

“I’ve said it over and over this past year. Juveniles with guns is going to get you one of two places — the cemetery or in jail," Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Friday, Jan. 3, 2025.

Republicans in the South Carolina General Assembly have taken the rare move of rejecting the only remaining candidate in a race to be a circuit judge. Some Republicans in recent days had become unhappy with James Smith's positions on abortion during his two decades in the South Carolina House and his unsuccessful 2018 Democratic run for governor.

Families in Richland One School District live in a community beset by poverty, eviction, and homelessness. A grassroots effort to help parents deal runs through May.

A historic Black community in Richland County proved why President Joe Biden might have pushed for South Carolina to vote first in the nation after it saved his campaign in 2020.

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating two South Carolina jails for possible civil rights violations following a string of deaths in Charleston and Richland Counties.

The special election to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. John Scott's District 19 Richland County seat was held Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.

A special election to fill the S.C. Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. John Scott will be Jan. 2, 2024.

Most South Carolinians are no strangers to change and growth in their areas, a natural process for most any place with plans to expand. But, in recent years, a developing trend permeating the Midlands has been giving its longtime residents a particularly harsh headache. It’s undergoing growth at a far faster rate than it’s used to.