Five Aiken County legislative delegation members said they supported Gov. Henry McMaster's call for lower income taxes during the State of the State address.

South Carolina's Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be the first person executed this year on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to hear his case.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster called on lawmakers to revive the failed VC Summer nuclear project in his State of the State, addressing rising energy needs.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — If you listened closely to South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster's State of the State address on January 29, you may have heard him say there was a $1.8 billion dollar surplus in the state's budget for fiscal year 2025-2026.

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.

Gov. Henry McMaster in his eighth State of the State address on Wednesday urged the revival of a failed nuclear project in South Carolina. State-owned utility Santee Cooper announced last week it would seek a buyer for the pair of half-built nuclear reactors,

A push to reinstate South Carolina’s private school voucher program has just cleared a major hurdle at the State House.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina State Senator Margie Bright Matthews delivered the Democratic response Wednesday to Gov. Henry McMaster's State of the Address . McMaster spent the speech talking up the state's economy and discussing and outlining his plans for education and energy policy.

Among the governor's proposals are cuts in personal income taxes, increases in teacher and law enforcement salaries, and funding for school choice

George Kennedy submitted a resignation letter to the Governor's office as the state auditor after a $2 billion accounting error was found.

State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, is the longest serving House member and has known McMaster through his times State GOP party chairman attorney general and lieutenant governor.