Legislation on abortion, marijuana, hate crimes and what can be taught in schools has all been filed ahead of South Carolina’s new legislative session next month.
Some members of the Charleston LGBTQ community say Thursday’s passage of the Respect for Marriage Act is a positive step, but the fight still continues.
Local activists are pushing back against a U.S. Supreme Court case that could significantly increase the power that state lawmakers have over elections for Congress and the presidency.
A major shakeup in Democratic politics has South Carolina poised to be the first state in the nation to select the party’s nominee for president in 2024.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Republican leaders at the state and federal levels descended on Mount Pleasant Monday to celebrate the completion of the Port of Charleston’s $600 million deepening project.
The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington. But without party control of Congress at stake and absent other candidates on the ticket, the runoff looks different from the November general election.
Democrats voted Friday to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024, a dramatic shakeup championed by President Joe Biden to better reflect the party’s deeply diverse electorate.
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.
A trial to determine whether South Carolina’s congressional maps are legal closes Tuesday with arguments over whether the state Legislature diluted Black voting power by remaking the boundaries of the only U.S. House district Democrats have flipped in more than 30 years.
If you drive in South Carolina, law enforcement likely knows where you’ve been and when, and that data, which includes hundreds of millions of records with data from your license plate is becoming the target of a new lawsuit.
After weeks of digging through state laws, it looks like the final school board seat in Charleston County will be filled by special election after the person voters elected effectively vacated her position.
When South Carolina lawmakers return to Columbia at the beginning of next year, they will face urgent pleas to do more to address the state’s worsening teacher shortage.
Memories of the tumultuous 2016 Republican primary hung over the Las Vegas ballroom this weekend during the first major gathering of the party’s potential contenders for the 2024 nomination.
Over 100 service industry workers gathered Friday in the capital of South Carolina, the state with the country’s lowest unionization rate, to launch a new union and in turn, try to boost labor organizing across the South.
In a new filing, Gov. Henry McMaster asked the U.S. District Court of South Carolina to protect the state’s ability to partner with faith-based foster care agencies.
The South Carolina Republican Party celebrated victories at the polls this week at many of its GOP counterparts across the country failed to generate the wins typically seen during a midterm election under an opposing party’s president.
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.
A six-member panel of three senators and three House members met twice – most recently on Wednesday – to try to work out a compromise between the two bills that they’d be able to get passed in both chambers before the legislation officially dies Sunday.
The votes have been counted and, while at least seven of the nine seats will be occupied by new board members, we still don’t know the final composition of the Charleston County School Board just yet.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott won reelection Tuesday to what he said will be his last term serving South Carolina, but the only Black Republican in the Senate may have bigger political ambitions yet.
With more than half of precincts reporting, the Republican candidate is maintaining a lead over her Democratic challenger to lead South Carolina schools for the next four years.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has successfully defeated Democratic challenger Joe Cunningham and is poised to become the longest-serving governor the state has ever had, the Associated Press says.
The key race on today’s ballot is the hotly contested gubernatorial race featuring current Governor Henry McMaster and Democratic challenger Joe Cunningham.
Americans will head to the polls for the country’s midterm elections Tuesday, and at the top of the ballot for South Carolinians, voters will be determining who leads the state for the next four years as governor.
Legislators across the country are at odds over who can vote, where and how, but very few are talking about the shadow organizations influencing our elections by spending huge amounts of money in local races.
As voters head to the polls, candidates in Dorchester School District Two are making their final push to get a seat on the board and raising tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
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.
The Election Commission said although early voting was not implemented until May of this year, the early voter turnout for the General Election has quadrupled the number we saw in the June Primaries.
The men hoping to lead South Carolina for the next four years will be crisscrossing the state this weekend, making their final pitches to voters before Election Day on Tuesday.
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