Updated: Oct. 25, 2021 at 4:01 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 349,000 people visited the South Carolina State Fair this year, fair organizers said Sunday.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2021 at 12:05 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden landed in the Lowcountry late Sunday night ahead of two planned appearances in the Charleston area on Monday.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2021 at 11:53 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Seven people, including three infants, were taken to the hospital with minor injuries following a crash in Beaufort County Sunday morning, the Burton Fire District said.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2021 at 11:50 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
A driver died in a single-vehicle crash in Orangeburg County late Sunday morning, the South Carolina Highway Patrol said.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2021 at 11:22 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Officials across the Lowcountry and across the nation took part in the latest Drug Take Back Day Saturday in an effort to keep potentially dangerous medications from being misused.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2021 at 11:21 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Two people have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting on Lady’s Island last weekend, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2021 at 9:20 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Two people were hospitalized following a rollover crash on Interstate 26 in North Charleston Saturday evening, the South Carolina Highway Patrol said.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2021 at 7:37 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Officials with the Nemours Wildlife Foundation on Saturday cut the ribbon on the organization’s new $2 million wildlife research facility in Beaufort County.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2021 at 7:02 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Officials in Georgetown are searching for a 29-year-old man whose family reported him missing.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2021 at 7:46 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Charleston’s Design Review Board on Monday is set to consider conceptual approval of a proposal to build a luxury car dealership at the site of a former fire station in West Ashley.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2021 at 3:16 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
A driver died in a crash on Interstate 95 in Orangeburg County overnight, the South Carolina Highway Patrol said.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2021 at 11:54 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
A 23-year-old man was killed in an overnight shooting in Bluffton, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2021 at 10:41 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The bridge between the Charleston peninsula and James Island reopened shortly after 10:30 Saturday morning following the James Island Connector Run.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2021 at 7:12 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Multiple food giveaway events are set to happen in the Lowcountry on Saturday.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2021 at 11:32 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Sen. Lindsey Graham is set to visit Arizona on Monday to talk with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials about security along the United States-Mexico border.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2021 at 8:37 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The town of Kiawah Island’s 2021 sea turtle nest inventory process wrapped up Sunday morning after finding slightly more nests than last year.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2021 at 7:54 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The former CEO of the SCANA Corporation is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on state charges related to the failed V.C. Summer Nuclear Station project.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2021 at 4:17 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Teachers across the country will be able to get a free breakfast meal at McDonald’s each day this school week, the fast food giant announced.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2021 at 5:50 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Public library branches in both Charleston and Dorchester counties will be closed Monday for staff development.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 10:12 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Friday marks the last day for the public to respond to a survey to provide feedback on a long-range transportation plan in the Lowcountry.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 7:08 AM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Online “impostor schemes” targeting investors are growing more prevalent and sophisticated, South Carolina’s attorney general’s office warned.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 at 6:33 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
An internal audit of the Charleston County School District’s information technology practices has turned up several red flags. The audit identified several practices that were characterized as high-risk.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 at 5:41 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The Charleston County Council could pass a zoning ordinance that would allow the county’s school district to build a new middle school and high school in the Awendaw-McClellanville area.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 11:13 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The Charleston County School District voted to enforce its mask requirements on Monday.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2021 at 6:13 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
By his own admission, Elvin Speights, Sr. had not been taking the COVID-19 pandemic seriously...until now.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 8:10 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
A Dorchester County sheriff’s deputy is now facing legal issues, accused of slamming a man to the ground earlier this year.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 5:20 PM EDT
|By Summer Huechtker and Logan Reigstad
The town of Mount Pleasant is looking to change an element of its Parades, Demonstrations, and Public Assemblies ordinance.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2021 at 6:31 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Locals and visitors alike flocked to beaches across the Lowcountry on Monday to mark the unofficial end to summer.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2021 at 11:18 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Logan Reigstad
Charleston Police responded Monday morning to a shooting reported at an apartment complex along Ashley River Road.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2021 at 6:38 PM EDT
|By Riley Bean and Logan Reigstad
Tidelands Health is setting up a multifaceted crisis strategy to handle the unprecedented influx of patients to their emergency rooms.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 1:27 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Logan Reigstad
Roper St. Francis Healthcare says it is caring for a record number of COVID-19 patients across its hospitals.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 at 6:25 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
As COVID-19 cases in schools across the Lowcountry continue to rise, parents are concerned they are not getting enough information about what’s keeping their kids out of the classroom.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 7:36 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
As South Carolina continues to see COVID-19 cases climb, one of the tools in the state’s arsenal to fight the pandemic is now able to be used in more people and more places.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2021 at 11:30 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The economic uncertainty brought on by the pandemic led many would-be entrepreneurs to face the risks of starting a business and decide to make a go of it.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2021 at 6:23 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Logan Reigstad
The Colleton County School District will temporarily move to virtual learning for two weeks because of the continued spread of COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2021 at 11:33 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
A fundraiser in Goose Creek Saturday afternoon raised more than $5,000 for a Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was seriously hurt in a crash two weeks ago.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2021 at 6:48 PM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff and Logan Reigstad
More than six years after the deadly shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston that claimed nine lives, those close to one of the victims are still serving the community to help keep his legacy alive.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2021 at 6:46 PM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff and Logan Reigstad
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office says former Captain Will Rogers passed away Friday night.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 at 7:36 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The list of businesses requiring employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine continues to grow after the Food and Drug Administration granted Pfizer’s vaccine full approval Monday, but many Americans are still not sold on the shot.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2021 at 11:40 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
The Charleston County School District is preparing to submit its plans for how to spend more than $163 million in federal funding to help schools amid the pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2021 at 11:53 PM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff and Logan Reigstad
Dozens of parents, students and community members gathered at a prayer vigil at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School Sunday evening as students there prepare to head back to class after three of their classmates were injured in a shooting on school grounds last week.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2021 at 11:21 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Protesters rallied on the bridge over Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant Saturday evening in the latest protest across the Lowcountry over mask and vaccine mandates.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 7:07 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
More than three years after crews broke ground on Charleston’s newest fire station, the multimillion-dollar project is now complete and firefighters are getting settled. The new Station 11 on Savannah Highway opened on Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 4:55 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
As Charleston County school leaders work on a plan for how to spend more than $160 million in federal funding, the Racial Justice Network is calling on them to make sure the money is spent in ways that will specifically benefit Black students.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 4:45 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
As the United States winds down its military presence in Afghanistan ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, local and national veterans facilities are seeing an increase in the number of veterans seeking mental health treatment.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2021 at 11:17 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Sunday marks eight months since the first people in the Lowcountry received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2021 at 11:38 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
South Carolina drivers who hold up traffic in the far left lane on certain roads will soon be breaking the law.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2021 at 6:51 PM EDT
|By Riley Bean and Logan Reigstad
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deadly crash that involves multiple vehicles on James Island.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2021 at 8:22 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
Many schools are temporarily not allowing parents to walk their kindergarteners to the classroom on the first day citing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 5:45 PM EDT
|By Logan Reigstad
With just days to go before students head back to the classroom, the Charleston County School District has launched a new program to help make getting to school a little easier.