Jessica Holdman

Visitors walk down the ramp where Alex and Michael Smith were drowned in a car in 1994 in Union, S.C., on Sunday, July 9, 1995.

COLUMBIA — The head of the state agency that oversees foster care, grocery assistance and other programs for children and vulnerable adults is resigning. His last day is Jan. 2. Michael Leach has led the state Department of Social Services since Gov. Henry McMaster picked him as director in March 2019. He came to South […]

Michael Leach has led the state Department of Social Services since Gov. Henry McMaster picked him as director in March 2019.

A powerful new MRI machine marks SC colleges' latest effort to improve the detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

More frequent natural disasters, coupled with inflation, are driving up insurance premiums in SC and across the country.

A contractor hired by the state has two months left to report the origins of $1.8 billion in unidentified SC taxpayer money.

Polls open at 7 a.m. Tuesday, South Carolinians’ final day to vote in state and national elections. Aside from a scuffle last week at an Orangeburg polling place that’s under investigation, the voting process has largely gone smoothly in South Carolina leading up to Election Day, according to state election officials. Anyone who experiences or […]

Some South Carolina voters backed one party for president and the other for their local legislators. Here's why.

South Carolina Republicans celebrated wins that stretched from the White House to the Statehouse, while Democrats blamed Trump.

COLUMBIA — South Carolina Republicans took a victory lap Wednesday celebrating wins that stretched from the White House to the Statehouse.