Ian Grenier

COLUMBIA — The S.C. Department of Education is winding down its years-long takeover of Williamsburg County schools, announcing Oct. 22 it would start transferring governance power back to the district's school board.

COLUMBIA — School resource officers with the Richland County Sheriff's Department arrested a student Oct. 24 after authorities say he brought two loaded guns to Spring Valley High School.

The University of South Carolina is planning to build a neurology-focused hospital as part of a future medical school campus in the Columbia BullStreet District.

A SC board is holding a preemptive hearing on 11 books to to establish 'consistent, common-sense' guidelines for book challenges under new book-ban regulation.

Robocalls from U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn urged Columbia voters to reelect incumbent school board candidates as Richland One candidates campaign over local issues.

Political mailers funded by a "Defeating Communism" political action committee supporting Lexington-Richland Five school board members name a Chapin teacher.

Voorhees University, an HBCU in Denmark, SC, in rural Bamburg County, will become the third South Carolina college to start sponsoring K-12 charter schools.

SC's education department is continuing its crackdown on Richland One, rejecting the Columbia school district's plan to recover previously increased oversight.

The State Board of Education voted to remove 7 books from South Carolina schools Nov. 5, confirming recommendations from a board committee's Oct. 31 review.

See the winners of Columbia and Richland County school board election results, and voters elect leaders in Richland 1, Richland 2 and Lexington-Richland 5.