Protections for working moms who are breastfeeding are now in effect across the U.S., and a 2020 South Carolina state law played a key role in motivating Congress to enact them nationwide.
A deal intended to beat an impending deadline and avert a global financial crisis if the U.S. defaults on its debt cleared a major hurdle Wednesday night, passing the U.S. House of Representatives.
South Carolina lawmakers passed a bill this session that allows local governments to leverage tourism related tax dollars for affordable workforce housing projects.
Nikki Haley’s husband will soon begin a yearlong deployment with the South Carolina Army National Guard to Africa, a mission that will encompass most of the remainder of his wife’s campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
A judge on Friday put a temporary halt to South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
The South Carolina Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would ban most abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy -- before most people know they are pregnant – and sent it to the governor who has promised to sign it.
South Carolina lawmakers finished their regular session in 2023 passing a flurry of bills that have kept Gov. Henry McMaster’s right hand busy signing them into law.
By Patrick Phillips, Elisheva Wimberly and Steven Ardary
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott announced his White House bid at his alma mater in North Charleston Monday morning, saying he’s the candidate the far left “fears the most.”
South Carolina Republicans on Saturday selected Drew McKissick as their chairman for a fourth term at a convention where some of the party’s 2024 presidential hopefuls made pitches to voters in the first-in-the-South primary state.
Because sunscreen is regulated by the FDA, it’s in the same category of drugs as over-the-counter medications, which students weren’t allowed to have with them in a public school without permission from a doctor before.
When a six-week abortion ban goes before the state Senate on Tuesday, a senator who represents Charleston and Dorchester Counties says she and the other women of the Senate will vote against it.
Abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of pregnancy under a bill being debated Tuesday in the South Carolina House after the state Senate recently rejected a proposal to nearly outlaw the procedure that House leaders had long demanded.
Three female Democrats from the South Carolina House of Representatives vowed to fight against an abortion ban ahead of a special session ordered by Gov. Henry McMaster Tuesday.
The state agency that oversees everything from issuing food safety permits to regulating dams to, in recent years, coordinating South Carolina’s pandemic response will likely soon be abolished.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether South Carolina’s congressional districts need to be redrawn because they discriminate against Black voters.
Gov. Henry McMaster will hold a news conference Friday morning during which he will likely recall state lawmakers to finish work on a bill to restrict abortions.
The man who has served as acting of the South Carolina Department of Insurance will now take on that role permanently after the state Senate confirmed him.
Gov. Henry McMaster released a statement Thursday on the confirmation of the woman he nominated to become the new chair for the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
A bill that would guarantee paid parental leave for public school teachers in South Carolina when they welcome a new child via birth, adoption or fostering will soon be on the governor’s desk.
The deputy chief of Folly Beach’s Public Safety Department and the former police chief of Mount Pleasant have decided they want to be the next sheriff of Charleston County.
South Carolina’s economy keeps doing better than predicted, leading the House to vote Tuesday to increase the raises it wants to give to nearly every state employee.
More than nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Republican-dominated legislature South Carolina in has failed to agree on limiting abortion