Lily Levin

Charleston Animal Society (CAS) on Saturday declared a spirited tabby and a dashing Bernedoodle to be the 2023 winners of its fourth annual Rescue Brew contest.

The Palmetto State has previously been home to some of the country’s worst drivers — and a new 2023 report said this year was no exception. South Carolina ranked eighth among states with the most incidents per driver, according to a LendingTree study of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

South Carolina is the fifth worst state in the nation for accessing mental health care facilities, according to a recent nationwide study. The group that conducted the study, Mental Health Rehabs, analyzed data from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to calculate the number of mental health facilities per 100,000 people in […]

President Joe Biden today visited the Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun Street to deliver remarks about the importance of democracy and the necessity of confronting hate in this country. He spoke to a full auditorium at the church, where, on June 17, 2015, nine church members were killed by a self-proclaimed racist during a bible […]

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a Jan. 15 holiday just around the corner, and this year with the recently opened International African American Museum (IAAM), Charleston boasts more events than ever before. The IAAM will host its first Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, IAAM King: An MLK Day Celebration, on Jan. 15. The […]

Mount Pleasant-based Motley Rice law firm on Jan. 11 is hosting a screening of Burned, a short film produced by Ethereal Films and Mark Ruffalo which depicts how Diane Cotter, married to Worcester, Mass. firefighter Paul Cotter, began investigating the true cause of her husband’s recent cancer diagnosis — and found the answer in his […]

New York Times best-selling author Stacy Willingham’s third novel is hitting the shelves this week — and though its plot is entirely fictional, she credits much of the inspiration behind the setting to her hometown, Charleston.

If you live in or commute to Charleston, you likely know about the challenges that often come with finding a place to park. But the Parking Reform Network (PRN), a national nonprofit formed to “educate the public about the impact of parking policy” recently updated its city maps to include Charleston — and it found 23% of downtown Charleston that is zoned as a business or mixed-use district is used for parking.

Rebecca Bell and her husband David on Jan. 9 drove from their home in Charleston to the S.C. Statehouse — through what Rebecca described as “torrential downpours” — to testify to a House subcommittee about problems with a bill seeking to ban gender-affirming care for youths.

This year’s annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) includes its first Women in Conservation panel, an event borne out of what SEWE’s Mary Roberts said was a desire to highlight representation in the field — and the organization’s existing connections to the panelists.