Tony Bartelme

The Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina is the site of a novel project that uses sprinklers to create habitat for the elusive black rail.

Emails reveal Columbia attorney Belton Zeigler appeared to make numerous language changes to a bill opponents call a "giveaway" to the SC's utilities industry.

SC wildlife officials will temporarily close a rapidly eroding bird sanctuary near Charleston from human activity after conservationists urged more protections.

Sightings of eastern black rails are coveted by birders because rails are so secretive and scarce. South Carolina has only two known populations, one in the ACE Basin and another in the Santee Delta. But in a novel project, the U.S. Forest Service is using sprinklers to create the kind of habitat black rails like. The agency’s goal is to establish a breeding colony.

Longtime Amelia Earhart searchers are skeptical about the new sonar image from a Charleston-area ocean exploration company.

Amelia Earhart search yields possible clue, thanks in part to advances in AUV’s, or underwater drones.

Tony Romeo and his crew at Deep Sea Vision claim they may have found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane that crashed in Oceania over 86 years ago.

HCA Chippenham Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, allegedly hid trauma center data from Virginia regulators, according to lawsuit from former employee.

The JMS Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia, is the nation’s largest burn unit. But its future is in jeopardy after the death of Fred Mullins, a burn doctor who helped drive the center’s national expansion.

Max Marshall, author of “Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story,” shared with The Post and Courier his approach and purpose in pursuing his investigation of Charleston’s Xanax black market.