A relatively rare East Coast earthquake centered northeast of South Carolina’s capital city has jolted large numbers of state residents awake

A South Carolina judge has approved a second round of refunds for customers of a utility that poured billions of dollars into two nuclear power plants that never produced a watt of power

The federal government plans to auction off the rights to produce power from wind energy in two areas offshore of North Carolina and South Carolina

One coastal South Carolina county has started issuing passes to allow people to reenter areas evacuated because of a hurricane or other disaster

The South Carolina Senate is moving forward with a proposal to split up the state’s health and environmental affairs agency

An employee with the South Carolina Forestry Commission has been charged in a string of suspicious fires earlier this year

A breezy, dry Monday has led the state Forestry Commission to issue a statewide Reg Flat Alert for outdoor burning in South Carolina

South Carolina’s health agency is again asking people to bring certain types of dead birds to their offices so they can test them for West Nile virus

South Carolina senators are set to consider a proposal to break up the state's main health and environmental agency