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Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:39 PM EDT
|By Amanda Shaw
The South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023 was introduced in the House in January.
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Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 10:56 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The state’s chief accountant will leave the elected post he has held for 20 years on April 30, according to a copy of the resignation letter obtained by The Associated Press.
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Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 12:22 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is inching ever closer to a presidential bid in 2024, scheduling his latest swing through early-voting states before returning home afterward to give donors a “political update.”
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Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 1:06 PM EDT
|By Anisa Snipes
This bill will take effect upon approval by Governor Henry McMaster.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 9:57 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Currently, people can buy 48 ounces of beer in a single day at a craft brewery for on-site consumption.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 7:17 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
ConocoPhillips has said the project will produce an estimated 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 4:09 PM EDT
|By Mary Green and Dylan Leatherwood
A Senate Finance panel recommends removing South Carolina’s comptroller general from office and transferring his office duties to other agencies.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 6:55 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Teacher groups and advocates for public education who oppose this bill are encouraging their supporters to show up and testify against it.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 1:31 PM EDT
|By WMBF News Staff
The vote comes after a multi-billion dollar accounting error
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 11:29 PM EDT
|By WMBF News Staff
It was her first time campaigning in the Palmetto State since she announced her candidacy last month in Charleston.
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Updated: Mar. 12, 2023 at 1:02 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood and The Associated Press
Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley is once again campaigning in her home state and the first voting state, South Carolina.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 7:27 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A bill filed at the South Carolina State House would crack down on stores that illegally sell tobacco and nicotine products to kids and teens.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 1:39 PM EST
|By Kristin Nelson
South Carolina U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is stepping up in the fight against Mexican drug cartels bringing fentanyl into America.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 7:11 PM EST
|By Emilie Zuhowski
After Tennessee’s governor signed a bill into law restricting drag shows from taking place in public and in front of kids, some South Carolina legislators want to impose more restrictions on drag shows in the state.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 10:31 PM EST
|By Mary Green
During the pandemic, many American discovered the ease of getting groceries delivered straight to their doorsteps.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 3:49 PM EST
|By Stetson Miller
Senator Tammy Baldwin has reintroduced legislation that would limit what can be labeled as milk to dairy products.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 6:27 PM EST
|By Mary Green
When Lester Young of Columbia was released from prison after serving 22 years, he was ready to find a job and begin the next chapter of his life outside incarceration.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 11:16 AM EST
|By Nevin Smith
The multi-billion error came over a ten year period.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 8:50 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A month-and-a-half into its new legislative session, the General Assembly is in full swing at the South Carolina State House.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 8:21 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A month-and-a-half into its new legislative session, the General Assembly is in full swing at the South Carolina State House.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 7:01 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and Mary Green
The South Carolina House voted on Wednesday to allow lawful firearm owners to carry handguns openly or concealed without a state permit.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 11:46 PM EST
|By WIS News 10 Staff
Vice President Kamala Harris is coming to Columbia on Monday, Feb. 27.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 6:02 PM EST
|By Mary Green
“The intent of this bill is to take bad people and lock them up so they cannot do it again. We’re talking about violent offenders,” said Rep. Chris Wooten.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 10:26 AM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Lawmakers push changes to federal laws on marijuana, with a special focus on banking regulations.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 4:48 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The legislation now awaits a debate on the Senate floor after the Medical Affairs Committee voted to advance it last week.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2023 at 4:54 PM EST
|By Tim Darnell
President Joe Biden, politicians, celebrities are sending poignant messages to nation’s 39th president.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 6:41 PM EST
|By Mary Green
In most school districts in SC, students only have one option for which public school they attend.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 7:23 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A similar bill was proposed at the State House last year but died before it got a debate.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 9:26 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The lower chamber continued its efforts to make S.C. the 13th state with a ban from conception.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 5:59 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Senate hearing looks at whether legislation is needed to protect children online.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 11:00 PM EST
|By Mary Green
For more than a century, South Carolina law has prohibited the state from sending public dollars to private schools, including religious schools.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 10:38 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A bill that would restrict what can be taught and discussed about history and current events in South Carolina schools has moved closer to becoming law.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 10:15 PM EST
|By Mary Green
South Carolina’s new school superintendent is laying out her priorities for spending more than $800 million on K-12 education in the next state budget.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 7:26 PM EST
|By Mary Green
bill that could restart lethal injections in South Carolina is now awaiting a debate at the State House.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 7:05 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Lawmakers are fast-tracking a push to criminalize trafficking fentanyl in South Carolina, where it is currently not a law.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:43 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Nikki Haley is moving closer to making her presidential campaign official.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 7:33 PM EST
|By Mary Green
On Tuesday, senators voted along party lines, 28-15, to give S.39 a second reading.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 10:20 PM EST
|By Freeman Stoddard
The South Carolina Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday reversing a Circuit Court’s decision to deny death row inmates’ requests for information regarding the availability of lethal injection drugs.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:32 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
The Senators believe there is little difference between the JR-15 and an AR-15.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 3:56 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
“It’s an obvious fact," says Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.)
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM EST
|By FOX Carolina News Staff
At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Governor Brian Kemp will deliver this year’s State of the State address before the Georgia General Assembly.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 3:03 PM EST
|By FOX Carolina News Staff
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham made a statement after it was announced that the United States and Germany plan to aid Ukraine.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 12:17 PM EST
|By Amanda Shaw
According to a poll from the South Carolina Policy Council, more than half of the voters they polled in the state said the country would be better off if neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump is elected president in 2024.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:38 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Hendrick returned to lawmakers with a big request: nearly $30 million to build a new juvenile detention center in Columbia.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 7:36 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A push at the State House could allow capital punishment to resume for the first time in over a decade.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 3:52 PM EST
|By Amanda Shaw
The goal of the trip was to discuss the path forward for the country as they fight an invasion from Russia.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 10:12 AM EST
|By Amanda Shaw
In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier, Nikki Haley hinted again that she has not ruled out a presidential bid.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 7:27 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Days before the March for Life rally, the House GOP advanced a measure called the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 6:51 PM EST
|By Mary Green
More than half of the drug-overdose deaths in South Carolina right now can be traced to fentanyl.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 8:35 AM EST
|By WBTV Web Staff
Stein named AG in 2017.