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Dominion Energy's Keller Kissam drops the hammer on proposed Lowcountry data center ...

South Carolina House Speaker Murrell Smith told lawmakers the states energy grid was reaching a "crisis point" as a result of its booming economic and population growth. Hes proposing a

The state’s Republican leadership has a new round of legal filings pushing back against abortion providers’ latest lawsuit over the states abortion prohibition, calling it a flagrant reversal.

Right about the time we learned of yet another illegal early release of a violent inmate that S.C. Rep. Todd Rutherford had engineered, the lawyer-legislator who has turned himself into

Establishment ramping up pressure on Freedom Caucus members ...

“Chief Keel is a long-term employee who can probably retire at anytime,” House Speaker Murrell Smith said.

South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division Director Mark Keel was recommended to receive a pay increase nearly 20 percent larger than the median household income of the state. Even then,

“As long as there’s a system that allows drug traffickers’ attorneys to pick our judges, we will not have judicial elections,” one S.C. senator says, as he and others look to force change in a process that many believe lacks fairness.

Taxpayer bailout protects government-run hospital from consequences of failed foray into Midlands region of state ...

Circuit Court Judge Bentley Price has presided over cases in the Ninth Judicial Circuit since 2019. The state bars ranking is one of the first steps in the judicial selection