South Carolina

The Columbia City Council will reevaluate short-term rental properties after a deadly shooting June 6 at an Airbnb that resulted in the death of an 18-year-old.

State legislators joined Gov. Henry McMaster in his office Thursday to commend a new law criminalizing the posting of intimate or nude photos without a person’s consent, commonly known as “revenge porn.”

The federal government has cut food aid and tightened restrictions for food assistance programs. As summer kicks in, rural districts might have trouble keeping up with need. So might food pantries.

An annual report by United Way breaks down South Carolinians considered asset-limited, income-constrained, and employed. The state's overall average masks some wide disparities in race, age, and geography.

Lancaster County's two main stops for residents needing food assistance have swapped which agency oversees USDA food program for low-income residents. The growing need for assistance all but demanded it.

Rates of homeownership among Black and Hispanic residents in the state were among the highest in the country in 2023, but these buyers still faced the most challenges in getting a home.

Lawyers for the South Carolina inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month say state prison officials didn’t provide enough information about the drug to decide whether he wants to die by lethal injection.

The South Carolina Senate has started its homework assignment of coming up with a comprehensive bill to guide energy policy in a rapidly growing state and amid a quickly changing power-generation world.

The South Carolina Senate has approved its budget. The final vote came Wednesday after approving items like requiring school children use the bathrooms of their sex assigned at birth and whether universities can spend state money to move to another athletic conference.