Legislators agreed June 28 to strike $33 million worth of spending from South Carolina's budget, including a project pitched as creating a technology hub in Columbia as well as several other earmarks with ties to their colleagues
Editor's note: The Aiken Design Review Board meeting scheduled for next Tuesday, July 5, has been postponed, according to a city official Wedn…
Grumpy's has a dozen televisions overhead, 100 different kinds of beer and 26 ways to flavor Buffalo wings. Its burgers weigh a half-pound and…
Dozens of local businesses had a moment in the spotlight Tuesday evening in Newberry Hall, with the annual Aiken's Choice celebration honoring…
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The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is officially becoming a justice. Jackson will be sworn as the court’s 116th justice at midday Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. Breyer says in a letter to President Joe Biden that his retirement will take effect at noon, after nearly 28 years on the nation’s highest court. Earlier in the day the court is expected to issue its final opinions in a momentous and rancorous term that included overturning Roe v. Wade’s guarantee of the right to an abortion. Read more
Dominion Energy is currently working to restore power to 535 customers near downtown Aiken on Wednesday. Read more
The meeting scheduled for Tuesday, July 5, where the Aiken Design Review Board was to consid… Read more
Editor's note: The Aiken Design Review Board meeting scheduled for next Tuesday, July 5, has… Read more
A Warrenville family could be out $40,000 after the Aiken City Council voted to deny a rezon… Read more
The new Aiken municipal building is open for Aiken City Council business. Read more
Being located near the Savannah River Site is once again paying off for the City of Aiken. Read more
LIV Golf’s first U.S. event was set to begin Thursday, with a group of survivors and families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terror attacks planning to gather at a nearby park to speak out against the Saudi Arabia-funded tour. The families are speaking out because of what they say are the Saudi connections to the tragic event in 2001. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 were Saudi citizens. Read more
LIV Golf’s first U.S. event was set to begin Thursday, with a group of survivors and families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terror attacks planning to gather at a nearby park to speak out against the Saudi Arabia-funded tour. The families are speaking out because of what they say are the Saudi connections to the tragic event in 2001. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 were Saudi citizens. Read more
Last week we were treated to a double-barreled blast from the U.S. Supreme Court on two hugely controversial matters. On Thursday, June 23, the court overturned New York’s restrictive concealed carry law on the basis that it was inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. A d… Read more
