Dorchester News

The date of the craft fair and auction at the Faith Sellers Senior Center was listed incorrectly in Wednesdaya s edition.

A joint House/Senate panel is accepting notice from people interested in applying for a seat on the S.C. Department of Transportation Commission.

According to the State Comptroller General's Office, 15 local governments have begun posting their spending online for public viewing.

News Summerville is the most active location within the Charleston real estate market based on the number of transactions year to date.

Officials say the mid-year cut may mean teacher furloughs as soon as next year. "How much money?" Mrs.

The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments has launched a free Internet-based rideshare matching service for commuters.

Charleston, SC - The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control has updated its Web site with dates, times and locations for H1N1 flu vaccine clinics in the following counties: Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester.

One county's trash is becoming another county's problem. Charleston County considering a deal to send 250 tons of trash a day to a private landfill in Dorchester.

Willie Smalls stacks wood behind his family's 'tent' for the St. Paul Camp Meeting.

South Carolina's passing rate for students seeking a high school equivalency diploma has reached an all-time high of 73 percent, matching for the first time the national average for GED success, state education officials announced Thursday.

Legal action has been taken against the Dorchester School District 2 over recently-passed legislation that allows the school district to charge developers $2,500 on new homes to pay for the construction of new schools.

While the percent of all South Carolinians without health insurance was about 17% in 2008, according to census estimates released this week, that number was a higher 23% for working-age residents of the state.

A conservative-leaning legal think tank wants a court to void a promise by North Carolina legislators to give a culinary and hospitality school $10 million in taxpayer money.

Officials blame crowding and timing for the cancellation of a visit by South Carolina Gov.

Helping Out highlights some of the many charitable events and activities going on in the Charleston area.

Dorchester County Council is expected to vote tonight on whether to allow the county to issue up to $15 million in bonds to purchase and expand the sewer and wastewater treatment facility owned by the town of St.

The water still smells like sulfur, and now it tastes like chlorine, some say. They're right.

For the past two weeks, children in a Summerville neighborhood have been getting on and off their school bus in front of a registered sex offender's house.

Summerville Journal Scene The Summerville Journal Scene will honor ten Dorchester County women with a special section to be published on Oct.

Dorchester County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who robbed a check-cashing business this morning on Ashley Phosphate Road.