Skylar Laird

COLUMBIA — A Florence private school whose director is accused of misusing public money is no longer an approved recipient of taxpayer-funded K-12 scholarships, according to a letter provided to the SC Daily Gazette.

Sponsoring senator says it could be a first step toward free breakfasts and lunches for all K-12 students.

COLUMBIA — About half of South Carolina’s drinking water systems will likely be on the hook for expensive solutions to filter out “forever chemicals” under a new federal …

COLUMBIA — South Carolina families have just three weeks to claim millions of dollars in grocery assistance before the aid expires. Nearly 537,000 debit cards were mailed to families statewide last August as part of a federal program started during the COVID-19 pandemic intended to help poor families buy groceries when their children aren’t getting […] The post Millions in SC summer grocery aid will expire next month appeared first on SC Daily Gazette.

(File/Getty Images) COLUMBIA — A bill that would let charter schools give enrollment preference to children from military families advanced to the Senate floor Wednesday.

COLUMBIA — Students in South Carolina’s K-12 schools would need to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological sex at birth under a rule senators inserted into their state budget package. The proposal approved by senators 30-7 on party lines late Wednesday applies to multi-stalled school restrooms and places where students undress, to […] The post SC senators approve K-12 mandate that ‘a boy will use the boys’ bathroom’ appeared first on SC Daily Gazette.

A decorative cake honors Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens' 50-year anniversary Friday, April 26, 2024. The zoo opened to the public on April 25, 1974. (Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)

COLUMBIA — Students in South Carolina's K-12 schools would need to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological sex at birth under a rule senators inserted into their state budget package.

COLUMBIA — While the number of opioid prescriptions in South Carolina has decreased in recent years, newly public data could show where doctors are

COLUMBIA — A bill that would legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina is almost certainly dead for the year after a House panel made no decision on it Tuesday, as news the federal government is reclassifying cannabis raised a whole new set of questions to a proposal that's failed repeatedly for a decade.