A House panel today will take up a bill that would allow anyone who can legally own a firearm in the state to carry a concealed weapon without a permit.
COLUMBIA- South Carolina lawmakers could eliminate a 6-month driver's license suspension for people caught driving with open liquor containers or drinks in their cars.
The South Carolina Ethics Commission has cited Lt. Gov. Ken Ard for late, incomplete and missing campaign finance reports, the commission's executive director confirmed Thursday.
A $100 million bailout of the state's Medicaid program approved Tuesday will keep health care on track for the state's elderly, poor and disabled at least through March.
South Carolina lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday designed to further crack down on illegal immigration, a measure that opponents call discriminatory and unnecessary.
Ethics regulators said Wednesday that Lt. Gov. Ken Ard did not file a required campaign finance report when he was seeking reelection to the Florence County Council in 2008.
Paul Campbell doesn't want South Carolina to end up like California in the early 2000s, when the state experienced rolling black outs. He plans to introduce legislation for a clean-energy plan.
South Carolina legislators sometimes brag about their power to frustrate governors and set the timetable of lawmaking, but they met their match Tuesday with Old Man Winter and failed to muster a ...
COLUMBIA -- A state senator hopes to bar ex-convicts from serving on school boards, following the controversy over Edgefield County school board hopeful Nathaniel Jackson, who served three years ...
South Carolina's House of Representatives easily re-elected Charleston Republican Bobby Harrell as its speaker and turned back a tepid challenge from tea party activists with a 112-5 vote.
COLUMBIA --- South Carolina voters could elect the state's first female governor and send the first black Republican since 2003 to the U.S. House today.
COLUMBIA - Amid an election season abuzz with high-profile conservative female candidates, the S.C. GOP is hoping women will join the party's new initiative and open their pocketbooks in the process.
COLUMBIA -- An Aiken lawmaker said he plans to reintroduce his legislation aimed at capping the amount of fines a political candidate may face for failing to file disclosure forms.
Leaders of the South Carolina GOP were expected today to discuss disciplining a state senator who referred to the party's Indian-American gubernatorial nominee and President Obama as ragheads.
