News

Support our Sponsors!

Become a Sponsor

Daily online updates about the SC General Assembly, including legislative actions, debates and discussions.

Catch Up

Panel picks artist, location for Robert Smalls statue on SC Capitol complex

A bipartisan legislative panel on Wednesday picked the artist and location for the future Robert Smalls statue on the Capitol grounds, what will be the first monument to an individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse complex.
A proposed monument of Robert Smalls, sculpted and submitted by Georgia-based artist Basil Watson.

A former SC reporter and daughter of Habitat for Humanity's founders remembers Jimmy Carter

In 1976, a 9-year-old Faith Fuller got a good-bye gift from a girl in her class at Eastside Elementary School in Plains, Ga. – a little stuffed pig, from a girl named Amy, who preferred to read her books while sitting in a tree.
Faith Fuller, far left, and her family pose with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter outside Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga.,, circa 1986. Fuller would attend Carter's Sunday school classes there in his post-presidency years.

South Carolina ETV and Public Radio to host live taping of South Carolina Lede podcast with House Speaker Murrell Smith

South Carolina ETV and Public Radio (SCETV), in partnership with the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, will host a live taping of the South Carolina Lede podcast and

image of hosts Gavin Jackson and Maayan Schechter with speaker murrell Smith. Includes This week in south carolina, SC Lede, scetv endowment and scetv and public radio logos

Weekend winter storm could deplete blood supplies in South Carolina

Wintry weather heading for South Carolina this weekend could disrupt a number of things, including the supply of blood.
Blood donations midweek could stem keep South Carolina's blood supplies level following this weekend's expected winter storm.

New Year, Get Ready!

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for January 7, 2025: we catch you up on some of the Congressional drama kicking off the 119th congress; there’s early voting for a special election primary in one Lowcountry House district; reporter Scott Morgan speaks with Faith Fuller, whose parents created Habitat for Humanity, which became inextricably linked to the late 39th President Jimmy Carter; and more!
LIsten

SC environmentalists and small businesses applaud President Biden's offshore drilling ban

It’s the ban many environmentalists and small business owners in South Carolina have been begging for, a ban on new offshore and gas drilling in most of the country’s coastal waters.
FILE - This April 10, 2011, file photo, shows a rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. The Biden administration on Friday proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — and none in Alaska — as it tries to navigate between energy companies that have pressed for greater oil and gas production and environmental activists who have urged President Joe Biden to shut down new offshore drilling in the fight against climate change.

Catch up

State House Today

Live & recorded broadcasting of SC government entity sessions including the SC Senate, SC House, the Supreme Court of SC, and more. Find daily online updates about the South Carolina General Assembly on the blog, The State House Gavel.

State House Today

This Week in S.C.

Video series highlighting one topic each week with political leaders, newsmakers and policy makers in our state.

Latest Episode

Polls and Popes

PBS News Hour

Video series in which top journalists deliver compelling original analysis of the hour’s headlines.

Latest Episode

May 7, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

Washington Week with the Atlantic

Primetime news and public affairs program featuring a group of journalists at a roundtable discussion of major news events.

Latest Episode

Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 5/2/25

Support our Sponsors!

Become a Sponsor