“We’re very happy and pleased with the decision of the commission and the potential that it has unlocked for our system,” library Director Emanuel Sinclair Mitchell says.
“It just makes me feel like we’re part of a great small town with lots of things to so and it makes you feel connected to everybody,” said parent Joy Kirkland.
The Greater Augusta Arts Council said the city’s traffic and engineering staff believes crosswalk murals will help calm the intersection of East Boundary and Telfair Street.
An Augusta home caught fire after being struck by lightning during Wednesday’s storm, after the neighbor alerted the homeowner. The incident caused no injuries, according to officials.
In just the past year, South Carolina has gone from more than half of its schools lacking access to mental health counselors to now 80% of them having it.
The federal government on Thursday announced a grant of $2.1 million in American Rescue Plan funds for Georgia to strengthen the Medical Reserve Corps network.
The graduations keep coming as Aiken County grads lined up to get their diplomas. It was a packed house inside the University Of South Carolina Aiken Convocation Center.
One tattoo shop is finally open after regulations in Columbia County delayed things for months. The county is pausing other applications for the next 120 days.
Sens. Jon Ossoff and James introduced the bipartisan Military Facilities Upgrades Act to make it easier to replace damaged and older facilities on installations.
More smoke from Canadian wildfires is expected to drift into Georgia and South Carolina on Friday, but the effects here won’t be anything like what people are seeing in New York.
The Columbia County Visitors Center has launched a new campaign called the Bombasin Land Trail. The idea came after the success of the Serene 18 Paddle Trail.
We’re learning new details about the shooting of a 13-year-old girl at the Walmart on the 2000 block of Whiskey Road — and the man who’s accused of doing it.
The Mullen Coughlin legal firm could deal with legal troubles from sensitive data – such as Social Security numbers and bank accounts – made public due to the breach.
Experts say farmers will have to look for opportunities to try new things as they navigate year-to-year variability as well as longer-term climate change.
The House is waiting for a bond reform bill and a budget everyone agrees is important, but can’t agree on what’s in them. And there is a July 1 budget deadline.
Agencies are getting millions in grants that will launch a multi-county mobile crisis team, pay for body cameras in Richmond County and fight youth violence in Burke County.
Representatives from the local Jersey Mike’s stores planned on Thursday afternoon to present a check in excess of $59,000 for the funds that were raised.