Tony Bartelme

Southern Environmental Law Center wrote a letter to the city of Sumter warning them to identify and stop PFAS polluters dumping forever chemicals into the wastewater system.

Seas, lakes and ponds across the world are “going green” at an alarming rate. Hyperactive algae are the culprits — scum that can generate toxins as deadly as cobra venom.

When the Lowcountry warms up, algae begin to grow in Bushy Park Reservoir, the prime drinking source for 400,000 residents in the Charleston area.

Before Afghanistan capture and being jailed in Hanahan, Yaser Hamdi traveled a long, strange road that started with his birth in Louisiana.

New misconduct charges this week against suspended-Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis add to mounting evidence that the state's system of monitoring sheriffs is broken, government watchdogs and some lawmakers say.

At Charleston’s Ashley House, probate records reveal blurred lines between friendship and estate control, raising questions about trust and oversight.

A little-known river near Sumter has the highest levels of PFAS and other "forever chemicals" in the nation, per a new national study by the Waterkeepers Alliance.

For more than a decade, Larry Dalton Williams was the popular sheriff of Orangeburg County — South Carolina's 2003 Sheriff of the Year. And, when he died suddenly in 2010,

Senator Tuberville grilled Marine Commandant Eric Smith over the F-35B ejection over North Charleston, who blamed pilot Del Pizzo for jet's $136 million loss.

Saharan dust plumes crossing the Atlantic are dampening hurricanes at the start of the 2025 hurricane season, with one blob set to hit the Southeast in a week.