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The city of Columbia today is expected to award a contract for construction of a $2.3 million pavilion connected to EdVenture Children's Museum.

Columbia's 2009-10 budget - fraught with layoffs, reduced staffing at two fire stations and elimination of some garbage services - is getting help from SCE&G. South Carolina's only Fortune 500 company has agreed to pay the city $4 million for 5.88 acres of land at the corner of Washington and Huger streets - land that has been targeted by ...

Columbia's budget for next year includes an extra $30,000 for the lease of 231 new streetlights, despite the fact that the city struggled to pay the power bill for the lights it already has.

Grove Elementary was evacuated today due to an odor in the school, said Greenville County Schools spokesman Oby Lyles.

Columbia City Council moved forward with a proposal Wednesday that would eliminate the city's commercial garbage pickup.

Sgt. E. M. Marsh peers into the darkness, through the rain-speckled windshield of his Chevy Impala police cruiser, and recognizes the sinewy man in the black stocking cap.

The South Carolina Supreme Court's chief justice visited Greenville on Thursday to hail one of its own legal advocates who was at the forefront of the 'legendary big decisions of the civil rights movement in South Carolina.' Chief Justice Jean Toal used the life of the late Willie T. Smith Jr.

The adage "government - it's nice work if you can get it" is ringing less true for City of Columbia employees.

CLEMSON - Clemson University celebrates its international mix of cultures with an athletic theme this year, offering lessons in sports ranging from the Vietnamese martial art of Cuong Nhu to cricket.

Lexington County's 1,300 employees soon may have new standards for dressing for success.

A judge ruled Monday that Columbia taxpayers owe design firm Stevens & Wilkinson money for a publicly funded hotel the city never built.

From interviews, a selection of capsule assessments from Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole, authors of "The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina": Ben Tillman : "Tillman plays a pivotal role in the ...

When tanners lie down in salons across the Carolinas, they're more likely to walk away with a skin infection than have the bed go up in flames, according to authorities.

An abandoned effort by Columbia City Council to build a publicly funded Convention Center hotel has cost city taxpayers about $2 million and counting in legal and other fees.

In the midst of a $4.3 million budget shortfall, Columbia officials have hired a professional grant writer for $55 an hour as part of the newly created "office of the stimulus." Interim city manager Steve Gantt ...

On a clear and frosty morning in late December, Big Hitter, a 5-year-old foxhound who hadn't been in the woods for weeks, caught a scent and took off running.

S.C. photographer Cecil Williams speaks Wednesday in the Belk Auditoruim. Freedom. This word spoken by a famous South Carolina photographer is the key message in his documentation of the Civil Rights Movement.

Columbia officials have thrown out six finalists for the city's chief financial officer job after a committee of local business leaders decided none of them was qualified.

Traffic is backing up on Interstate 85 in Greenville tonight as firefighters scramble to pull people from the wreckage of a crash involving multiple cars.

Columbia City Manager Charles Austin is retiring from his role, officials confirmed late Friday afternoon.