Carriage company suspended

Draft horses working for Carolina Polo and Carriage Co. could take the busy Thanksgiving week off this year. Charleston tourism officials suspended the company's operations for 30 days, which amounts to Carolina Polo shutting down for seven days, and allows for an additional 23-day suspension if the company receives any more citations resulting in convictions during a three-month period. Read More

Operation plant-rescue

C of C botanist hoping to save trees, flowers at site of new Boeing factory

Long before the Boeing Co.'s decision last week to build its second Dreamliner factory near the Charleston International Airport, before Vought Aircraft Industries and Global Aeronautica opened their fuselage plants nearby and even before that whole area fell under post-Sept. 11 security restrictions, a College of Charleston botanist traipsed through the woods back there and photographed a flower. Read More

Carolina Polo gets 30 day suspension for violations

Charleston tourism officials informed Carolina Polo and Carriage Co., the business previously convicted of four code violations, that they would suspend the company’s franchise agreement for 30 days. Read More

Crown jewel makes 1st visit

Ship brings more than 3,000 tourists to City Market area

As if the tourism floodgates opened Thursday morning, a crush of visitors with maps and cameras took to the City Market. They poured out of a white and blue floating skyline that emerged at the foot of the historic district as the Crown Princess, the crown jewel of the Princess Cruises fleet, made her inaugural stop in town. Read More

Water taxi service may expand

Floating dock proposed for end of Waterfront Park

A request to build a dock at Waterfront Park could change the way tourists and residents cross Charleston harbor. Read More

Savannah deepening to get 2nd look

More than a decade ago, Georgia officials developed a plan for deepening the Savannah shipping channel and, for all these years, prepared for growth according to it. Read More

5 firms vie to sell property

495-acre Daniel Island parcel to go on market

A large expanse of land on Daniel Island once eyed for a container terminal should be on the real estate market soon. Read More

Middleton to get 2 rare hogs

Middleton Place plantation recently restored a nearly bygone species to its stable yards. Read More

Bringing Boeing to S.C.THE ART OF THE DEAL

How political rivals, tenacious pursuit, ironclad silence and a little bit of luck produced a monumental victory

This momentous scene -- state leaders hugging and crying as Gov. Mark Sanford signed with 10 commemorative pens the legislation that landed Boeing's plant in North Charleston -- came only after six years of patient courtship. Boeing had considered locating its first 787 Dreamliner assembly line on that chunk of property near Charleston International Airport in 2003. Read More

Idea taking off

Local aviation authority adopts incentives program aimed at helping new carriers, services get started

Still reeling from AirTran Airways' decision to pull out of the area, airport officials have created the first-ever incentives to lure new carriers and services. Read More