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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Officers with the Mount Pleasant Police Department rescued an unresponsive driver from a vehicle that had driven into a pond on Saturday. Several officers responded to the Meridian Condominiums just after 6 p.m. on Saturday after a vehicle had driven into a pond, with the driver unresponsi

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — Charleston’s annual Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition is heading into its final week, but the energy at Marion Square is still going strong. After days of large crowds, vibrant creativity, and one-of-a-kind artwork, both artists and visitors say the festival continues to be a standout cel

In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, we look back at Charleston’s distinctive July 1976 Bicentennial issue, featuring this cover created by late Mount Pleasant oil painter Charles DeAntonio. Throughout the magazine, then-editor in chief Robert Wintner took an imaginative approach, using Revolutionary War-era

Upper King Street on a Saturday night is not for the faint of heart. Bachelorette sashes tangle with bar crawls, shot specials blare from open doorways, and the collective din could rattle the windows at St. Michael’s. So it takes a particular kind of nerve to open a candlelit Provençal lounge amid the clamor and ask p

On a recent afternoon at Coast Brewing Company near the old Navy Yard, the bar patrons weren’t just drinking beer. Behind the counter, Aiden Merritt was stirring up cocktails—s’more old-fashioneds and clarified milk punches—in between pouring pints of the lagers and ales his father has brewed for nearly two decades.

While the storyline of Porgy and Bess, the Charleston-based opera of redemptive love and loss, may be known over the world, much of its true grandeur has yet to find an audience until now. A documentary, to be previewed during Spoleto Festival USA this month, focuses not on DuBose and Dorothy Heyward or Ira and George

The marsh doesn’t ask permission; it spreads and breathes and pulls the tide in and out on its own schedule, indifferent to whoever stands at the helm. Courtney Hutson, the founder of Golden Girls Outdoors, has known this since she was a girl, kayaking out to a then-vacant Daniel Island with her father, combing the plu

CM: Please tell us about yourselves. SJ: We were born and raised in the Lowcountry. We’re from an area called Hamlin, which is located in what is now affectionately called “North” Mount Pleasant. We both graduated from Wando High School and Francis Marion University. Our love for cooking began when we were young with ’

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Pet Helpers has stopped taking in dogs for the time being as the Charleston-based shelter works to reduce overcrowding and maintain care for animals already in its custody. The organization announced a temporary moratorium on all canine intake effective June 1, meaning it will not accept addit

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – The Town of Mount Pleasant’s Transportation Committee will meet Monday to discuss Charleston County’s Highway 41 improvement project. The county is expected to provide a progress report on state and federal permits for the plan, according to information shared by Mayor Will Haynie. The Hig