Sammy Fretwell

A South Carolina official who worked as at one of the state’s biggest agencies has been named director of the S.C. Department of Environmental Services.

Industrial-scale poultry farms are descending on a tiny South Carolina community. Neighbors worry about odor and threats to water quality and land values.

Land conservation groups and state agencies are pushing to protect more than 60,000 acres in eastern South Carolina.

South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley recounted Thursday how sustainability issues and the environment helped bring one of the country’s top recruits to Columbia.

Tension between a state agency and a coastal landowner has boiled over. The state has issued a near record fine. The landowner says the state is out to get him.

Lead is a toxin that cities across the country are fighting to keep out of drinking water. Recent studies in the Columbia area offer encouraging findings.

A conservative SC senator known for supporting property rights has become a champion for wealthy beach owners, in both the Legislature and in legal matters

A 2017 nuclear construction fiasco seemingly ended hope that two reactors would be built in South Carolina. Could the project be restarted?

Soggy soil, high winds from Hurricane Helene create mess of downed trees in South Carolina.

South Carolina’s Riverbanks Zoo has lost one of its most beloved animals. A big male lion named Zuri has died.