South Carolina

All six Republican candidates for South Carolina governor appeared Tuesday night at the College of Charleston for the second of three scheduled debates ahead of the June primary.

Nearly two years ago, Hurricane Helene devastated portions of the Carolinas. Since then, a change in administrations in Washington and a budget standoff in Raleigh have led to confusion and frustration. Access to resources has often been difficult. Hear the conversation we had about that and resiliency during WFAEs Carolina’s Climate Summit.

A South Carolina Senate panel has approved a proposal to temporarily limit access to the state's school voucher program for homeschooled students.

Most of South Carolina’s Republican candidates for governor met Wednesday night in Newberry for their first debate of the campaign, focusing heavily on affordability in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states.

88-year-old Rock Hill resident Wali Cathcart’s family story stretches across generations of Black struggle in America, from slavery to integration. For Cathcart, many of those challenges and triumphs played out through his love of baseball, a sport that didn’t fully integrate for Black players until the late 1950s. As part of Black History Month, WFAE explores Cathcart’s journey from living under Jim Crow segregation to being honored for promoting equality.

The State Law Enforcement Division says an 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in a shooting that left two people dead last week at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. Khamanti Kennedy is accused of shooting and killing two men in a room at a university housing complex, neither of whom was a student at the school. One student at the school was wounded but survived. Investigators said the shooting stemmed from a drug deal to buy marijuana.

A measles outbreak centered in Spartanburg County has grown to nearly 790 cases, making it the largest in the nation in more than two decades. State Sen. Josh Kimbrell tells WFAE unvaccinated students may need to learn remotely to protect others.

When a trio of Republican state lawmakers introduced a bill last year that would subject women who obtain abortions to decades in prison, some reproductive rights advocates feared South Carolina might pass the “most extreme” abortion ban in the United States.

Soon South Carolina SNAP recipients will be unable to use their benefits to buy candy, soft drinks, energy drinks of other sweetened beverages. The change follows federal approval of a waiver requested by Gov. Henry McMaster.