Bluffton News

Hardeeville Police Chief Richard Nagy said this is the first double homicide he has handled since joining the Hardeeville Police Department six years ago.

A fight among teenagers in the parking lot of a Bluffton movie theater led to a high-speed chase that ended with a Jeep crashing into The Island Packet/Beaufort Gazette building late Friday, according to a police report released Monday.

Bluffton town leaders will consider Tuesday purchasing 11 parcels of land at Bluffton Village for a new Town Hall and municipal court.

Southern Beaufort County's golf industry has taken its licks from the Great Recession.

The island between Tybee and Hilton Head faces a threat to its drinking water, according to South Carolina's natural resources chief.

Four years ago I, and another longtime Pritchardville resident, Margaret Howell, circulated a petition in favor of naming the new school yet to be built and only known as the "Jones Tract elementary," to be formally called Pritchardville Elementary School.

The incident at Bluffton High School was a test of the school's, the police department's and the community's preparedness and ability to react to a real threat to our children and our community.

The crash of a Jeep Wrangler into The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette building late Friday was apparently the end result of an incident between two groups of teenagers at a local movie theater, according to a Bluffton Police Department spokesman.

Members of the 2013 Helton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class and town officials will debut the Shrimp Boat Playground at DuBois Park at 10:30 a.m. May 11.

St. Helena Island's Candice Glover will face Kree Harrison in the "American Idol" finale next week after Angie Miller was eliminated during Thursday's live results show on the FOX TV network.

With its sights set on influencing the 2014 statewide elections, the Greater Bluffton Republican Club knew it needed more members and more cash.

The state Supreme Court's refusal to take up whether the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce must follow the state's open records law had to be unwelcome news for the chamber.

Jessicah Peters/Bluffton Today Residents along Buckingham Plantation Road were advised to remove all personal property from the construction area.

Where the Bluffton Parkway ends now - construction crews are beginning the fifth phase to link it US Highway 278 - essentially bridging Bluffton to Hilton Head Island.

A woman has been cited after a teen was struck while riding his bike in a crosswalk on Tuesday morning.

Residents, hildren and their pets are invited to join ribbon-cutting and celebratory "Shrimp Boat Shake" community dance at 10:30 a.m. Saturday Town officials and members of the 2013 Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class will debut the Shrimp Boat Playground at DuBois Park.

For the third year in a row, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island high schools have been named to a national list of schools with academically challenging instructional programs.

The only opinions that matter in the contest between Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch for a seat in the House of Representatives are those expressed at the voting machines Tuesday by 1st District residents.

The moms featured in this column are not bragging about themselves. They often have no idea they are even being selected for the weekly feature until they get a phone call.

Kristin Feldkamp was looking for a way to buy and sell children's items when she came up with a plan.