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The cash sprint is on in the race for the South Carolina House of Representatives District 75 seat currently held by Republican state Rep. Kirkman Finlay.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Seven sitting USC trustees are up for re-election this year and could face a vote in the General Assembly before lawmakers approve a bill reshaping the board.
Andy Shain
Columbia Bureau Chief
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The historic Babcock building, the linchpin of the redevelopment of the former Department of Mental Health campus in Columbia, has been turned over to a private developer.
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Another 200 positions have already been eliminated through attrition, cutting 527 jobs from the hospital system's 32,000 person workforce.
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Columbia’s newest downtown hotel is now open. Another hotel developer is breaking ground near Lexington Medical Center. And Lexington is expected to see its first hotel in the city center this summer.
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The heated back-and-forth comes at a pivotal time in the race, with just weeks remaining for Biden's challengers to cut into his formidable lead among the crucial bloc of African-American voters in South Carolina before the Feb. 29 primary.
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Frank Barron, who once was Richland County's coroner for more than 20 years, says he plans to once again seek the position.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Democrat Gloria Tinubu dropped out of South Carolina's 2020 U.S. Senate race Wednesday, clearing the path for Jaime Harrison to become the party's nominee against Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.
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The Richland County Sheriff's Department, of "Live PD" fame, has an impressive array of crime fighting tools. Officials hope they never have to use them.
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A councilwoman in South Carolina’s capital county skirted ethics laws by failing to disclose thousands of dollars in contributions and expenses across several election campaigns in 2016, the state’s top political watchdog agency charged in documents released Tuesday.
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The University of South Carolina needs places to house its growing student body, yet the school joined in opposition to one such project near its campus center.
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Authorities have arrested a man in an alleged gun-related domestic assault Jan. 7 in the parking lot of a Columbia doctor's office.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Freshman Sen. Dick Harpootlian wants to put an end to this secretive practice that greases South Carolina's budgeting wheels.
Seanna Adcox
Assistant Columbia bureau chief
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Allen University says it will break ground in two weeks on renovations of a former hospital, once the only medical facility to serve African Americans in Columbia, turning it into classroom space and a memorial to the Emanuel Nine.
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It appears the City of Columbia — finally — is on the precipice of getting a new city flag.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Richland County council members are squabbling again in the wake of firing a controversial administrator, this time featuring claims politicians traded sexual favors at strip clubs.
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Columbia Police are investigating after a woman was shot Tuesday afternoon outside a physician's office on Harden Street.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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The interplay between state Sen. Dick Harpootlian and state Rep. Todd Rutherford was a bit less heated on Tuesday morning than it was a month …
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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West Point's former chief of staff won the same job at the University of South Carolina, working for his former boss while adding more military experience to the president's office at the state's largest college
Seanna Adcox
Assistant Columbia bureau chief
Andy Shain
Columbia Bureau Chief
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The City of Columbia is planning to add bike lanes — and reduce the number of automotive traffic lanes — on two thoroughfares in the heart of …
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Attorney Jonathan Milling is set to be the newest member of the Richland School District One board of trustees.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Sharply increased demand for range space means that state and federal tax dollars need to be used to build a $4 million range for skeet and trap shooting in eastern Richland County, advocates for the project say.
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State regulators have ruled that private utility Blue Granite Water — formerly Carolina Water Service — cannot recover from its ratepayers mor…
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Brandon Wolf says it started out as "the most ordinary of days."
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Midlands homebuyers have an added challenge to consider: the added travel times as work begins in 2021 to fix "Malfunction Junction."
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Columbia City Council has passed a measure that will make way for a car wash to be constructed at 4624 Devine St., the site that was once home…
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
After an extended day of contentious debate filled with partisan rancor, South Carolina's seven U.S. House members predictably split along party lines as the chamber took the dramatic step of impeaching a president for just the third time in American history.
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An Irmo family's home was sold for $3,000 after they didn’t pay $250 in HOA fees. South Carolina's Supreme Court is ordering the foreclosure case be reconsidered.
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The Richland County elections office won't have its full complement of polling locations up and running for a rare New Year's Eve school board…
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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The state Public Service Commission will hear strong opposition from Irmo Town Council when it considers a rate hike from Blue Granite Water C…
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Alcohol sales would start at Gamecocks men's and women's basketball games at Colonial Life Arena and then move to baseball games at Founders Park this spring and football games at Williams-Brice Stadium next fall.
Andy Shain
Columbia Bureau Chief
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The Columbia Chamber will move its offices to the Main Street District in early 2020.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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It was a day of change in Irmo.
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A local election that was already strange because of when it is occurring — New Year's Eve — just got a little bit stranger.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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The University of South Carolina will not be disciplined by accreditors over Gov. Henry McMaster's lobbying of trustees during this summer's presidential search that led to the hiring of former West Point Superintendent Bob Caslen.
Andy Shain
Columbia Bureau Chief
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The City of Columbia zoning board gave an approval Tuesday that will make way for the construction of a long-discussed private student housing…
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Richland County continues to inch toward banning single-use retail plastic bags.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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The S.C. Democratic Party's executive council is now slated to meet Friday to certify the candidates and then send on the final list to the S.C. Election Commission to prepare the ballots.
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For West Columbia’s Tem Miles and Irmo’s Barry Walker, their campaign paths were different, but their ultimate destination was the same.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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The decision came as Harris has struggled in recent months to regain the apparent momentum she had when she entered the race in January.
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S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson sent Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin a letter calling for the City of Columbia to repeal a pair of ordinances related to guns
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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Pete Buttigieg's stunning rise to the top of the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field could stall with his struggles to win over African American voters. He is trying to change that perception in his latest trip to South Carolina.
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The University of South Carolina will turn tailgating hot spots into offsite parking for its growing student body. The remote parking plan is part of a massive overhaul of USC’s southern campus.
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Longtime Midlands retailer Satterfield's Jewelry Warehouse has reopened to liquidate its inventory, making way for a new owner. The company's plans for a transition were interrupted earlier this year by the S.C. Department of Revenue.
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In the year and a half since splitting with its parent company, Columbia technology firm Cognito Forms has more than doubled its staff and has been adding to its customer rolls at a rate of 2,000 per week.
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The City of Columbia is considering extending the hours during which citizens have to pay at metered parking spaces.
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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There will not be criminal charges in connection with the January carbon monoxide related deaths of two men at Columbia's Allen Benedict Court…
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
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After two weeks of fumbling over statements on the future of the school's football coach, University of South Carolina President Bob Caslen has hired former Gov. Nikki Haley's communications chief to work in his office
Andy Shain
Columbia Bureau Chief
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Democratic colleagues of a South Carolina senator known for his colorful language demanded Tuesday that he apologize for berating a legislative staffer with a profanity-laced tirade over a missing item in a news release.
Seanna Adcox
Assistant Columbia bureau chief
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In Columbia's Vista entertainment district, an uptick in empty storefronts is raising some concerns.
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A tattoo parlor that has long been slated for Main Street's Arcade Mall may have hit a snag with the state Department of Health and Environmen…
Chris Trainor
Staff Writer/Digital Media
