Hilton Head Island News

An outdoor living-history museum to commemorate Hilton Head Island's former freed-slave community is among the several plans the Town Council began discussing Thursday at it annual goal-setting workshop.

A 26-year-old Bluffton man was in stable condition at Savannah's Memorial University Medical Center on Thursday after being ejected from his van earlier this week during a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Palmetto Bay and Archer roads on Hilton Head Island.

A new report calls for changes in South Carolina's beach management policy that could make it more difficult for the Town of Hilton Head Island to manage its shoreline, a town official says.

Daufuskie Island residents and property owners will elect a nine-member council in February to serve as a liaison between local, state and federal governments, residents said Monday.

Two men have been charged with a string of armed robberies at Hilton Head Island restaurants, and authorities are trying to determine if they were involved in two incidents where female bar employees were assaulted and robbed.

When David Young grew up on Hilton Head Island, the Marshland Road area was home to fields of corn, watermelon and other crops.

The Town Council will consider a plan Tuesday to amend Hilton Head Island's Land Management Ordinance to make it easier for Beaufort County to remove and trim trees around the Hilton Head Island Airport.

Area Democrats expressed confidence Sunday a representative of their party can reclaim the governor's mansion for the first time in more than a decade.

Ben Ham's "The Journey" runs through Jan. 22 at the Walter Greer Gallery in the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina.

Build a tunnel to Savannah, a tunnel to Beaufort -- someone always suggests a tunnel.

Most major crime categories droppedor stayed about the same duringthe third quarter on Hilton Head Island when compared to the same three-month period last year, but domestic violence cases rose 44 percent, according to statistics released Monday by the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.

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The Beaufort County Animal Shelter euthanized 3,876 of the 5,604 animals it took in last year -- some feral, some too aggressive or too sick to be adopted and others casualtiesof tight space and scarce resources.

A court order declaring a South Carolina couple dead provides more details pointing to a suspect as their likely killer and dispels notions that they disappeared on their own, a newspaper reports.

A court order declaring John and Elizabeth Calvert dead provides more details pointing to Dennis Gerwing as their likely killer and lists several reasons that debunk notions that the couple might have vanished on their own.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND -- A South Carolina couple has sued a Georgia-based security company for hiring a guard accused of setting fires.

Coast Guard crews have been searching since Monday for a Georgia native who was reported missing while sailing from Puerto Rico to Florida on a boat registered on Hilton Head Island, according to a Coast Guard release.

After reuniting through Facebook, former classmates reconnect artistically in new exhibit at Camellia Art NANCY K. WELLARD nancy.wellard@cancer.org Published Sunday, November 1, 2009 Comments Camellia Art The gallery is located at 1 Office Way, Hilton Head Island.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. ( - A judge has declared a South Carolina couple missing for more than a year and a half dead as family members plan a public memorial in Georgia.

A Yemassee man was arrested Friday night on Hilton Head Island after deputies chased him into an apartment complex and found cocaine and marijuana on him and 4.9 grams of crack cocaine hidden in a room, according to a Beaufort County sheriff report.