Spartanburg County

The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported 310 cases of measles linked to the Upstate outbreak in its Jan. 9 update. The state topped 300 cases after rising over 200 cases Tuesday.

In its first 2026 measles update, the South Carolina Department of Public Health identified nine new cases since Dec. 30.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health is reporting 20 more measles cases since last Friday. Three people also have been hospitalized because of complications from the virus.

The state's total count of cases for the year is up to 87, and the new exposures added more than 120 people to the quarantine list since the South Carolina Department of Public Health's Tuesday report.

A former South Carolina sheriff has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he helped steal about $80,000 from a benevolence fund and took pain medication meant for destruction.

Landrum, in Spartanburg County, was what travel brochures might call a hidden gem. After Hurricane Helene, Landrum was not an obscure place on the road to Asheville. A year later, residents still need help, as a longtime business tries to reclaim its storybook history.

On Sunday, the City of Landrum, in Spartanburg County, was entirely cut off from power and cellular service. Most of the Upstate and much of the Midlands is in the dark too, and may be for another week.

Performance zoning and is designed to be more adaptive than traditional Euclidean zoning.

The industrial automation manufacturer is creating its footprint in the Palmetto State by leasing a 60,000-square-foot facility and adding 160 new jobs in the Greer region of Spartanburg County.

A sporting goods chain is paying the families of three people shot to death by a South Carolina serial killer $2.5 million after one of its stores sold guns to a straw buyer who gave them to the killer, a felon who couldn't legally buy the weapons.