Upstate

The state Public Service Commission expects that by 2025, phone numbers assigned the 864 area code will max out.

Several dozen school districts in the Upstate are pooling resources to recruit teachers.The new marketing campaign, called Teach at the Top, was in the works before the pandemic exacerbated teacher shortages statewide. Now, the districts say it's even more critical.The effort is a collaboration between the 23 Upstate school districts and three nonprofits. The hope is that they will be more successful working together than competing against each other.

In Grenville and other counties in South Carolina, an acrimonious public debate is is growing over whether LGBTQ+-themes materials belong near the children's sections of public libraries.

Anderson-based Summer of God Slavic Evangelical Church has members from the Upstate on the ground in Ukraine right now. They're facing harrowing conditions while performing humanitarian aid.

The Bantu word 'ubuntu' conveys humanity and shared experience. Current and future healthcare professionals Upstate are channeling it. But you don't have to be a medic to find connection.

The mental health crisis among healthcare workers in the pandemic is, in large part, one of moral crisis. We’ve reported on the emotional toll COVID-19…