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Only 44 percent of Black survey respondents believe a qualified Black candidate has an equal chance of landing a job as a qualified white candidate. Read more
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South Carolina health officials have confirmed the state's first cases of Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, associated … Read more
Combined, the three shadowy organizations were able to spend more than three times what Rankin was able to raise for his own campaign. Read more
About 30 protesters gathered Sunday at White Point Garden in downtown Charleston to call for a thorough investigation into the June drowning d… Read more
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Repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic
Since the coronavirus pandemic reached the United States, domestic violence experts across t…
Worried about the likelihood of coronavirus transmission during the two-day test beginning J…
Real-time stats and the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak in SC and beyond, compiled by our reporters and editors. Read more
Make the most of your gardening space
This summer, our current sheltering at home and Charleston's continued urban density converge to make it high time to tend a garden, no matter how small your space.
Beyond the headlines
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that private-school-choice advocates are cheering doesn't mean South Carolina has to give parents vouchers to abandon the public schools. It's a reminder that we shouldn't subsidize religious or secular private schools.
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Virtual home energy audits are free stay-at-home activity that people can do to get expert advice on how to reduce their electric bills. Read more
A manufacturer of off-road work machinery powered by electricity and renewable energy sources has been ordered to pay $200,000 to the South Carolina Research Authority for moving its operations out of state. Read more
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone on Friday, just days before he was set to report to prison. Democrats denounced the move as just another in a series of unprecedented interventions by the president in the nation’s justice system. Read more
A Twitter exchange last week showed how former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's White House hopes rely on walking a line that grows more narrow — especially in the post-George Floyd racially charged country. Read more
Ray Tanner is always optimistic but the chances of having a normal college football season are rapidly dwindling. Read more
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According to a statement signed by the group’s 13 board members, the festival in the coming year will focus on diversifying its board and staff, paying closer attention to the event venues it chooses and facilitating the participation of a wider group of food-and-beverage experts. Read more
Guests of Wild Dunes Resort typically have their pick of half a dozen food-and-beverage outlets when they get hungry. But now their only choice on the 1,600-acre property is a food truck. Read more
In April, the Army Corps of Engineers released a proposal for protecting Charleston from storm surge using nearly $2 billion of concrete walls, riprap breakwaters, pump stations and property buyouts. Read more
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Columbia band Dear Blanca recruited a former Disney Channel star for a new music video, out Friday. Read more
