Mark Sanford will return ... whether we want him to or not.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading South Carolina polls for one very important reason.

Mark Hamill, better known as Luke Skywalker, basically endorsed South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison in a Tuesday afternoon tweet … while throwing some fairly serious shade at our senior senator.

Local elections are at least as important as national elections, even if they aren't as entertaining ... or infuriating. So go vote on Nov. 5.

Dorchester County residents and businesses are fighting back against groups trying to undermine referendums to build more parks and libraries.

Some Benedict College grads weren’t thrilled to see their alma mater host President Donald Trump on campus last week.

Some Sullivan's Island residents can't see the beauty of a maritime forest for the trees. 

The International African American Museum is perhaps the greatest legacy Joe Riley will leave to Charleston.

Our past legislative chickens have come home to roost in South Carolina's interstate overload crisis.

Historian Nic Butler's Charleston Time Machine shows just how far the mayor's job has come in 236 years. Which, in some ways, isn't that far.

When the Lowcountry Livability PAC made its endorsements for Charleston City Council a few weeks back, West Ashley incumbents didn’t fare so well. In fact, the group suggested kicking four of them to the curb.

Dorchester County famously has some pretty cheap, and pretty loud, residents. They suggest better parks and libraries will lead to poorer roads, which is just not true. They argue the “better life” is not having new amenities. How do you figure?

Mount Pleasant, this Jim Owens mess is a wake-up call.

Joe Cunningham just doesn’t get it. The 1st District congressman is still “withholding judgment” on whether President Trump should be impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate his most formidable political rival.

The state Department of Transportation shouldn’t be surprised about all this flak over its plans to “improve” Highway 61.

At the very least, you’d think Jaime Harrison would send Lindsey Graham a thank-you note.

It only took one accident on Johns Island to paralyze much of Charleston in gridlock for nine hours this week.

Harris Street, where Wendell Gilliard remembers the vegetable man hawking produce every morning of his childhood, is the same street where, two weeks ago, a young man was murdered. That crime and others like it are the only way most people know the East Side these days, and Gilliard wants to change that.

The first time they met, Joe Whitfield was selling crack on Felix Street and Dan Riccio was a cop.

Some South Carolina congressmen have a point: Democrats could have launched their inquiry into an intelligence agent’s whistleblower complaint about Trump without using the term “impeachment.” And probably should have. The right thing to do in a situation like this is to gather all the facts, and then decide what to do. As congressman Joe Cunningham suggested.

South Carolina’s senior senator has been getting trolled mercilessly this week on social media — and the media in general — for his apparently, uh, evolving views on impeachment.

Freedom is a matter of perspective, since the state allows the misguided and misinformed to freely expose everyone else to highly contagious, infectious diseases.

The East Cooper Republican Club hosted a forum for Mount Pleasant Town Council candidates last week and, judging by the questions and answers, neither residents nor their future leaders see that bus coming.

North Charleston police arrested Esaurolo Lopez-Cano in April after he was accused of punching a woman in the face, dragging her by the hair and threatening to kill her.

State Rep. Nancy Mace says that she believes the power to stop offshore drilling rests with the state ... and the U.S. Senate will never pass Cunningham’s bill anyway. She has a point on the Senate, but her main argument doesn’t hold water — even with other Republicans.

In the shanty town where they grew up, the other kids called them “salty boys.”

For weeks now, Dominion Energy crews have been kicking around here, trimming tree branches away from the power lines ... and producing the same cringe-inducing results that folks have seen on James Island and in West Ashley.

The South Carolina Republican Party has come up with an ingenious plan to save taxpayer money.

While South Carolina was evacuating, and waiting, we missed North Carolina getting completely scrambled.

We were just getting settled in for burgers and beer — maybe even the beach — when the call came.

It's becoming a trend around here: People raise Cain about our ridiculous traffic, then raise even more when presented with a plan to fix it.

Sheriff Andy Strickland was only trying to help. He simply wanted to remind the 130 or so employees working for him at the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office that, in South Carolina, they have no legal right to their jobs.

This may be the most Charleston thing ever, 21st century edition: You type “where” into Google, and it automatically suggests “…is Jim Cantore?”

It’s about time Charleston put plans to rebuild the Low Battery in high gear. Tropical Storm Dorian lurking east of the Caribbean islands is a good reminder that there is no time to dawdle.

It may seem like simple, common sense, but a distressing number of people aren't locking up their cars, even if they leave a loaded gun inside.

Nearly a quarter of South Carolina Republicans say a 2020 presidential primary would only be an opportunity for President Donald Trump’s enemies to hurt him. So, of course, they shouldn’t hold one.

Even though the proposed road map looks like a queue line at Disney World, Mount Pleasant is hardly the happiest place on Earth.

It’s hard to overstate the importance of North Charleston these days.

They come in search of Twelve Oaks, and aren’t real happy to instead find “12 Years a Slave.”

The Charleston mayor’s race officially kicks off at noon Monday, when filing for the November election closes.

The more Mark Sanford warns us about looming dark days, the more he sounds like The Dark Knight.

Eric Watson began to form his ideas about community policing as a teenager.

If Dorchester County needs a campaign slogan for its November bond referendums, it should try this: SLOW GROWTH — VOTE YES.

Your SCE&G settlement check is on the way. Don't spend it all in one place, South Carolina.

Unfortunately, Dylann Roof wasn’t an outlier — there are hundreds more like him.

On Sunday, the Charleston congressman posted a short video on Twitter showing his phone screen as he searched for Donald Trump’s account and — gasp — unfollowed the president.

Charleston police take this seriously, but they face some serious challenges in this latest palmetto rose squabble. There’s a long history here.

Anyone looking for steady work that pays well should apply to the South Carolina Department of Corrections ... as a defense attorney.

Nikki Haley fans were no doubt thrilled to learn she is now one of America’s top 10 most admired women.