Dorchester News

A church that served Anderson County residents for at least 100 years has been destroyed by fire.

Harleyville-Ridgeville Elementary School will benefit from the Dorchester Dist. 4 renovations program.

The Fine Arts Department of Dorchester School District 2 will hold a beginning instrumental music camp for rising sixth-graders enrolled or interested in enrolling in an instrumental music program in middle ...

Left to right, Sen. Catherine Ceips, R-Beaufort, Rep. Joan Brady, R-Richland, and Rep.

Evelyn Lotito, risk manager for Dorchester District 2, receives the Five-Year Award for Risk Management Honor Roll from risk control manager Heather Kinard with the South Carolina School Boards Insurance Trust.

Our tri-county region is socially, physically and economically connected. If we are sincere in the desire to address issues challenging Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties - such as uncontrolled ...

You turn the faucet on, and nothing comes out. You go to the Dorchester County Water & Sewer Department's Web site, find a phone number and dial it.

A survey in Friday's newspaper will kick off a $1.5 million, two-year effort to clarify what's most important as the Charleston area keeps growing.

It's a problem residents in Berkeley and Charleston counties don't have to deal with.

A lunch tray is passed to a camp student at Burke High School on Thursday. Charleston County schools plan to serve healthier food.

Life of hard knocks made highway patrolman a real 'trooper' Saturday, June 21, 2008 Brad Nettles Lance Cpl.

A suspicious fire razed nine cabins or "tents" at Cypress Campground in Ridgeville during the early morning of Friday, June 20, 2008.

Earlier this week, former Summerville Journal Scene publisher Bill Collins made the jump from journalism to politics, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Newly approved water and sewer service rate increases will help spur economic development in the upper part of Dorchester County, Council Chairman Larry Hargett said.

Since 1989 WTMA has been Charleston's source for the best talk radio, 24 hours a day.

As Tim Scott slides into his chair in the S.C. House chambers in January, he'll become the first black Republican to do so since Reconstruction ended in 1877.

The following gives a breakdown of the state's rankings by each of the report's 10 indicators: 48th: Percent of children in single-parent families 47th: Infant mortality rate 47th: Percent of low birth-weight ...

Land Institute's Center for Sustainable Leadership: www.uliscleaders.org It was six months ago that 150 Charleston-area leaders spent a couple hours moving colored blocks to show where they wanted new houses ...

Dorchester School District 2 school lunchrooms have won a national citation for serving some of the most nutritious food around.

Dorchester District 2 Fine Arts Coordinator Larry Barnfield has received the prestigious Mac Arthur Goodwin Award from the Columbia Museum of Art.