South Carolina’s embattled top accountant will step down next month after a $3.5 billion error in the year-end financial report he oversaw, according to a resignation letter written Thursday that was obtained by The Associated Press.
Prominent national Republicans, including a few running for president, were in the Lowcountry Saturday for one of the first big speaking events leading up to South Carolina’s 2024 First in the South primary.
On the heels of a record year for economic development, state leaders say their next focus is ensuring South Carolinians are ready to fill those positions.
For the last few months, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, state agency heads, and South Carolina citizens has been working to answer an important question.
After Tennessee’s governor signed a bill into law restricting drag shows from taking place in public and in front of kids, some South Carolina legislators want to impose more restrictions on drag shows in the state.
A bill filed in the statehouse would allow cities and towns across the state to annex “donut holes” through an ordinance, but one Lowcountry county is not in support of this.
A panel at the South Carolina State House is in the midst of investigating how the office of the state’s top accountant made a $3.5 billion mistake over the last decade.
A bill designed to crack down on offenders who commit violent crimes while out on bond in South Carolina is halfway to the finish line at the governor’s desk.
We’re days away from the first leg of the Aiken Triple Crown. A bill is making its way up the ranks again that would create a commission to legalize horse track wagering.
Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a coalition of 21 states in filing a brief before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit supporting the religious liberty and free speech rights of a wedding photographer.
Conservative states have renewed the push to create taxpayer-funded programs helping parents pay for religious and other private educational alternatives.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley had a busy first week as an official 2024 presidential candidate, announcing in her native state, then hustling to early voting New Hampshire and Iowa and going on a media blitz.
A lawmaker out of Charleston introduced a bill to allow for travelers to have liquor or distilled spirits outside of those two designated areas in restaurants.
A Democratic lawmaker who called the late pastor of Emanuel AME Church a friend is continuing his push to make South Carolina the 49th state with a hate crime law.
“The intent of this bill is to take bad people and lock them up so they cannot do it again. We’re talking about violent offenders,” said Rep. Chris Wooten.
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