The South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) with partner, Chick-fil-A restaurants, today kicked off its Buckle Up, South Carolina! and Click’n  4 Chicken safety belt campaigns as law enforcement prepares for the busy summer travel season. The department is teaming up with Chick-fil-A restaurants throughout South Carolina to bring attention to the importance of wearing safety belts. If troopers spot […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Former employees of American LaFrance, a defunct Moncks Corner fire truck manufacturer, will receive compensation for owed salary and benefits stemming from the plant’s sudden shutdown in January 2014 under the terms of a proposed settlement between the parties. Workers arrived at the plant on January 17, 2014 to learn that the company would cease operations immediately and […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Current and former members of AgSouth Farm Credit received nearly $44 million in two separate distributions this spring. Customers in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties received more than $755,000 in cash. In March the cooperative returned more than $29 million for the year ending December 31, 2014. Nearly $9 million was distributed in cash, and the remaining $20.6 […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Volvo Car Corporation has selected Berkeley County for its first manufacturing facility in the Western hemisphere. The new $500 million factory highlights the attraction of the United States as a location for high-technology manufacturing. “Today’s announcement is proof that Berkeley means business. In less than 100 days, we were able to accomplish what normally takes a year or […]

GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–If you’ve traveled along Saint James Avenue in Goose Creek, you’ve probably seen the heavy construction taking place. For the last several months, work crews have been building the new Walmart Neighborhood Market. The new grocery story is slated to officially open for business on June 24th at 7:30 a.m. According to store officials, they plan to employ […]

Although the Great Recession hit South Carolina harder than most places, recent economic indicators show the state is making some headway, if slowly. While the unemployment rate hasn’t budged much in the past year, millennials here are primed to find jobs. Young adults, or millennials, in South Carolina are attracted to the laid-back Southern lifestyle, coastal towns, thriving cities and […]

The month of May starts with Carolinians paying the highest gas prices of the year. Today gas prices in North Carolina average $2.45, compared to $2.29 a month ago. South Carolina’s average is currently $2.32 – an increase of 22 cents from a month ago. “Gas prices have climbed to the highest levels of the year in our area due […]

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 23rd annual nationwide Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on Saturday, May 9th.  Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Last year, with the help of thousands of volunteers, letter carriers all across America collected more than 74.4 million pounds of non-perishable food—the second-highest amount since the drive […]

Motorists can receive $5 for every auto or marine battery they bring in to any one of 34 AAA Car Care Centers or 58 Approved Auto Repair shops in North and South Carolina from April 20 to 26. Held every April in conjunction with Earth Day (April 22 this year), AAA Carolinas’ Great Battery Roundup is a used battery collection […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Thousands of new jobs could be headed to the area, according to Berkeley County officials. The county filed a permit on Thursday with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Charleston which could pave the way for a big-named manufacturer to set up shop in Berkeley County. At this time, the name of the company has not been […]