Isle of Palms News

Bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank is bringing her latest novel to Aiken personally next week.

Sen. Chip Campsen, R-Isle of Palms, and his wife, Lalla Lee, are longtime friends of the governor and his family.

Back in the heyday of punk rock music, The Clash were often looked upon as odd ducks, even by some of its musical peers, thanks to the band's refusal to stick to just punk-rock music.

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Danny Cizek, a Czech immigrant, stands outside his mobile home with his wife, Cathy, as the Czech flag flies overhead.

Summertime, and the livin' is easy ... and a little dangerous. Sunburns, stinging insects and animals, heat stroke or exhaustion a ' it's enough to make you want to stay inside.

Even if you have never owned a CD by Mat Kearney, or have never even heard the guy's name, you have probably heard his music.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate overwhelmingly overrode Gov. Mark Sanforda s veto of the so-called port restructuring bill, nixing the statea s chief executive of his ability to remove members of the S.C. State Ports Authority board at will.

Could a beach, not Justin Timberlake, actually be bringing sexy back? Is Isle of Palms, the beach where they turn out the lights at night to protect nesting sea turtles and tried to ban sand castles as a public hazard, the definition of sexy? Elizabeth Maybank Vacationers on the Isle of Palms.

Rip Current Awareness Week continues today with the National Weather Service Rip Current Program.

Isle of Palms, SC - A 500 yard par 5 with plenty of picture perfect views along the way.

Greenville's Paris Mountain continues to add to its series of grueling races. The latest, the inaugural XTERRA Paris Mountain 15K Trail Run, was contested May 30.

Wild Dunes resort on the Isle of Palms, vacationers cross between the beach and a sandbar with caution, eyeing one of several hammerhead sharks that has been seen in the area in the past week.

The 18th hole at one of the country's most acclaimed golf courses is now one of the world's largest sand traps.

A South Carolina golf course is about to reopen its closing hole, which had been washed away by beach erosion.

ISLE OF PALMSa 'Want to know how well the controversial Wild Dunes beach renourishment is doing? Here's a clue: They'll be toasting it with champagne Wednesday.

Along with the Village Tavern in Mount Pleasant, The Windjammer on Isle of Palms, and Tin Roof and Halligan's in West Ashley, The Oasis Bar & Grill on James Island is yet another venue that offers original live music on a regular basis.

A five-month arm wrestle among state legislators over whether to name the whale or the bottlenose dolphin was settled quietly in a compromise between Sen.

We're back. During the past week, we were chilling down in Charleston - and in more ways than one.

The local tourism industry, embodied by the likes of Ed Grimball , of Ed Grimball Walking Tours of Historic Charleston, is leading the way for positive employment numbers locally.