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|By Marcus Flowers
SC Representative Leon Howard has been appointed to the Means and Ways Committee.
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Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 11:00 PM EST
|By Mary Green
South Carolina is poised to take over as the first state in the Democratic primary
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Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 4:27 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The Democratic National Committee’s rule-making arm made the move Friday.
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Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 8:05 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
Changes are set to come after years of calls from many top Democrats.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 2:30 PM EST
|By Nevin Smith
Clyburn issued a statement Thursday.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 12:24 PM EST
|By Nevin Smith
The governors urged this action through a standalone bill or the National Defense Authorization Act.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 8:09 AM EST
|By Meg Kinnard
Nikki Haley, U.N. ambassador under President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that she would take the Christmas holiday to mull a possible 2024 presidential bid, contradicting her statement last year that she wouldn’t enter the race if Trump opted to run again.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 7:38 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
A panel of three federal judges on Tuesday heard closing arguments in the case in Charleston.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 7:33 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A recent report found South Carolina schools were short more than 1,400 educators at the start of this school year, an unprecedented high.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 7:40 AM EST
|By Andrew Fancher
Dozens of advocates gathered at the South Carolina Statehouse.
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Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 10:43 AM EST
|By Nevin Smith
Tuesday night Sumter held runoff elections for Schoolboard and for City Council.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 10:10 AM EST
|By Nevin Smith
The special election will be held in the spring of 2023.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 2:53 PM EST
|By Nevin Smith
Graham had been involved in a lengthy legal struggle to stop the subpoena.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 12:59 PM EST
|By Nevin Smith
Clyburn has held the position from 2007 through 2011 and from 2019 to the present.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 11:03 PM EST
|By Tiffany Rigby
On Thursday, The South Carolina Election Commission certified the state’s 2022 general election results.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 6:53 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A group of sitting state lawmakers is now suing a South Carolina school district over allegations it is training staff to teach critical race theory.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 7:10 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The last time these six jobs, all of which are statewide elected positions, received raises was nearly 30 years ago.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2022 at 2:28 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Republicans have been growing their legislative majority for a generation now.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 7:18 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A push to further restrict or even ban abortion in South Carolina is now over for this year, but advocates fighting for and against that effort say their work is not over.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 8:51 PM EST
|By Ashley Jones
The tax would have been used to fund a list of road and traffic improvement projects.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 7:04 PM EST
|By Josh Rultenberg
President Biden addressed the results of the midterm election and his own political future on Wednesday.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 6:56 PM EST
|By Chris Joseph
The run-off elections for the four remaining seats will be on Nov. 22.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 5:50 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and Mary Green
By law, this year’s General Assembly session ends Sunday.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 2:37 PM EST
|By Nevin Smith and Mary Green
House Speaker Murrell Smith said, “The bill is dead.”
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 2:14 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina GOP said Tuesday’s midterm elections proved what they already know: that the Palmetto State is a “solid Republican state.”
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 11:12 AM EST
|By Nevin Smith
The race for mayor in Saluda ended in a tie Tuesday night.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 8:26 AM EST
|By Nick Neville
Kirkman Finlay has held the seat for a decade.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 6:18 AM EST
|By WMBF News Staff
Republican candidate Ellen Weaver will be South Carolina’s next Superintendent of Education.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:39 PM EST
|By Chris Joseph
Her campaign told journalists a statement would be issued Wednesday morning.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 7:16 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Scott has remained coy about any plans beyond winning reelection.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:02 AM EST
|By S.E. Jenkins
Have you noticed any candidates listed on your ballot twice, but under different parties? It’s ok. It’s called “fusion voting.”
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 8:13 AM EST
|By Lauren Quinlan
The key race on today’s ballot is the hotly contested gubernatorial race featuring current Governor Henry McMaster and Democratic challenger Joe Cunningham.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 11:37 PM EST
|By Nevin Smith
Voters across South Carolina are headed to the polls Tuesday and WIS has the latest developments.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 9:50 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Tuesday voters will determine who leads SC for the next four years.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 9:09 PM EST
|By Nick Neville
South Carolina currently has about 3.4 million eligible voters.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2022 at 12:13 AM EDT
|By Emily Johnson
Gov. Henry McMaster’s re-election campaign spent day five of the McMaster-Evette tour hosting a morning GOP breakfast and an afternoon rally Saturday.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2022 at 10:10 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and Jeffrey Collins
Democrats in South Carolina get another shot at loosening the firm grasp Republicans have on statewide politics as voting ends Tuesday for the 2022 midterm elections.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 7:30 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The men hoping to lead South Carolina for the next four years will be crisscrossing the state this weekend.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 5:07 PM EDT
|By WMBF News Staff
The SLED investigation was requested by the Marion Police Department.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 3:15 PM EDT
|By Nevin Smith
If approved, the tax will fund $107,266,500 in capital projects in the county.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 8:46 PM EDT
|By Nick Neville
Officials say the goal is to have voters feel comfortable casting their ballots throughout the county.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 11:14 AM EDT
|By Nevin Smith
Early voting ends Saturday, Nov. 5.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 11:51 PM EDT
|By Marissa Lute
The two candidates running for South Carolina Governor are making last minute stops around the state just ahead of the midterm election next week.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 6:13 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Republican candidate Ellen Weaver will go against Democratic candidate Lisa Ellis at 7 p.m.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 8:44 AM EDT
|By Nevin Smith
The Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority said it wants to help riders exercise their right to vote.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 10:28 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The Senate initially tried to pass a ban on conception as well but failed to garner enough support among Republicans to pass as restrictive a bill.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 11:59 AM EDT
|By Josh Rultenberg
Both Democrats and Republicans are confident they can win the November mid-term elections because they claim they’ve each poached voters from regions where, traditionally, they don’t have a lot of support.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 7:34 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
When South Carolinians head to the polls for the general election, they will all see two questions posed to every voter about requiring more money be added to state reserves each year.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 7:11 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
As opposed to other states, like Kansas earlier this year, abortion isn’t literally on the ballot for South Carolina voters.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 5:05 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Thursday that the Supreme Court should not stand in the way of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony to a grand jury.