Jonah Chester

Hurricane Hugo is the storm all others are compared to in South Carolina. On its 35th anniversary, here's what people recall about the Category 4 disaster.

When Hurricane Hugo flattened a third of Francis Marion National Forest, it ushered in a new chapter for the landscape. Here's how the storm shapes the forest.

Horseshoe crabs on Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge will remain under federal control for now. News came after a South Carolina judge tossed case Sept. 18.

In a cruel twist, the landscape of the Southern Appalachians possibly boosted Helene's destructive impact and catastrophic flash flooding, Brown said.

The National Weather Service's Charleston office is forecasting that Hurricane Milton could bring several impacts to the Charleston area.

of 6 As temperatures drop in the north and summer nights give way to cool autumn mornings, millions of monarch butterflies will begin a pilgrimage of up to 3,000 miles towards southern latitudes.

Charleston Water System estimates that it will cost them more than $120 million over the next 13 years to comply with new federal rules on lead service lines.

Warmer waters mean wetter hurricanes. Those deluges are washing more polluted run-off into Charleston's water bodies, threatening the health of local dolphins.

South Carolina doesn't have statewide mold safety standards for rentals. So if a landlord decides they don't want to deal with it, renters have little recourse.

It took Tropical Storm Debby days to move through South Carolina. Here's why it was so slow, and what its behavior can teach us about future storms.