Edisto Beach News

With people still looking for inexpensive vacation alternatives, the S.C. State Park Service finished the fiscal year with its second highest revenue ever.

The National Weather Service has issued a Coastal Flood WARNING in effect from 6 p.m. today until 1 a.m. tomorrow morning along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts.

Flooding will again be possible for Thursday night in northern coastal Georgia and for coastal South Carolina.

Unusually high astronomical spring tides will continue to produce elevated tides across south central South Carolina and north coastal Georgia.

The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood watch which is in effect from 6 pm edt this evening through the middle to late evening for the following counties: coastal Bryan- coastal Chatham- coastal Liberty- coastal Mcintosh- Beaufort- coastal colleton- coastal jasper- Unusually high astronomical spring tides will continue to produce ...

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

An NBC Augusta 26 News viewer on vacation in Edisto Beach sent in video of a waterspout that occurred Thursday morning.

Water spouts have been sighted off Edisto Beach in Charleston County. For the most part, waterspouts are not technically tornadoes, they generally form in a different manner and are less intense.

The Coast Guard rescued three people and a dog at approximately 4:15 a.m. Saturday after their 22-foot SeaPro fishing vessel ran aground approximately one mile off Edisto Beach, S.C. Samuel Blevins, Angela Jackson, Jessica Watts, James Redmand, ages and residence unknown and a dog, Diesel, called a relative via cell phone after their vessel ...

Three seasons define the state's commercial shrimp fishery calendar. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources opens and closes the seasons based on biological monitoring and water temperature.

Girl Scout Troup 351 at Botany Bay Plantation, a new SC wildlife preserve, where the girls participated in a trash pick-up. Courtesy of Anne Fox.

Forest Hills Elementary students get visit from DHEC scientist It is one thing that elementary children treasure for every playground experiment; dirt.

Mrs. Camilla Brailsford Knotts Williams, 100, of 1581 Dunes Street, Orangeburg, passed away January 19th at her home.

Ashley Norris anchors the 10 p.m. nightly news on WACH FOX throughout the week and on Saturday nights.