Plant lovers to the rescue

Company allows botanist, helpers to remove plants from future factory site

Just days away from the Boeing Co.'s grand groundbreaking, when dignitaries will smile as they dig shovels into the earth, a College of Charleston botanist and an assorted group of plant lovers had a little groundbreaking of their own. Read More

Is it real or just a movie?

Viewers at 4-D theater will feel water splashing, critters scurrying by

A stony open space in front of the S.C. Aquarium soon will become home to a so-called 4-D theater where visitors can not only see and hear a dolphin jumping out of the water but feel a splash of the wet stuff. Read More

Seafarers' Society adds 2nd site

Columbus Street outpost mirrors Wando Welch's

A 200-year-old Port of Charleston group that provides visiting mariners with ministry and, in modern times, Internet connections and rides to Walmart, raised its flag at an additional location Thursday. Read More

Resorts maintain rankings

Guides love Woodlands, Sanctuary, Wentworth

The state's top-rated travel properties retained their distinct status for 2010, making no room for new South Carolina members in their elite club. Read More

Big opportunity on breeze in S.C.

Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, business development director at the Clemson University Restoration Institute, compared the grass-roots movement to turn wind into energy with the economic splash of the Boeing Co.'s decision to build its second Dreamliner factory in North Charleston. Read More

Groups launch Green Hospitality Alliance

Two statewide organizations launched a new voluntary program to let South Carolina hotels, restaurants and suppliers show their commitment to the environment. Read More

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