Coverage of timely local, regional, and breaking news in Beaufort County and the South Carolina Lowcountry. Includes community updates, government decisions, public safety alerts, traffic and weather impacts, and key issues shaping life in Beaufort, Port Royal, Lady’s Island, St. Helena Island, and surrounding Sea Islands. Designed for residents and visitors seeking authoritative, hyperlocal journalism from Beaufort’s newspaper of record.
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and changed the course of the nation, northern Beaufort County residents will have several opportunities to gather, remember and serve.
Beaufort events to mark 25 years since Sept. 11 attacks Read More »
Candidates running for the Beaufort County Board of Education will speak when the Northern Beaufort County Democratic Club (NOB Dems) meets at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17 at the Old Grace AME Chapel at 502 Charles Street in downtown Beaufort.
School board candidates to speak at NOB Dems meeting Read More »
Yu Wei Huo, the 33-year-old man based at Parris Island who had been missing since Aug. 27, has been identified as one of two people found dead in northern Beaufort County waterways Sunday.
Body found in Broad River identified as missing Parris Island man Read More »
For more than 50 years, Beth Grace was one of Beaufort’s most steadfast guardians. Her decades of service to Historic Beaufort Foundation not only championed and preserved our architectural treasures but also safeguarded the stories, traditions, and sense of place that make Beaufort unlike anywhere else.
Commentary: Preserving Beaufort’s soul — Beth Grace’s enduring legacy Read More »
Beaufort County election officials are looking for approximately 300 new poll workers to help staff polling locations for the Nov. 3 General Election.
Beaufort County needs 300 new poll workers ahead of November election Read More »
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will visit Beaufort between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 3, on his “On The Road To Flip The Future” tour and his “Take It Back” tour, speaking to South Carolina Democrats.
Newsom to visit Beaufort Read More »
For more than two centuries, a massive live oak stood near the corner of Bladen and King streets in Beaufort, surviving wars, hurricanes, disease and generations of change around it.
Now, Beaufort’s Witness Tree has fallen.
Beaufort’s historic Witness Tree falls after centuries of watching over the city Read More »
Robert L. Gwaltney brings decades of nonprofit leadership to the Beaufort organization By Delayna EarleyThe Island News Four years ago, Robert L. Gwaltney came to Beaufort as a writer with
Award-winning Southern writer takes helm of Pat Conroy Literary Center Read More »
The Beaufort Digital Corridor recently celebrated 10 years of helping Beaufort area businesses and consumers take advantage of rapidly progressing technologies with a party held Thursday evening, Aug. 27, 2026.
Beaufort Digital Corridor celebrates 10 years Read More »
Allison Kindwall wasn’t trying to start a campaign when she set out for a Saturday morning run to the Port Royal Farmers Market.
She was just trying to get there without a car.
But as Kindwall made her way toward the Russell Bell Bridge, the sidewalk disappeared. What she thought would be a relatively simple run instead left her navigating a busy stretch of roadway with no safe pedestrian route to the bridge.
“I should be able to run over the bridge safely,” Kindwall said. “Like, that’s not a crazy thing to say.”
Beaufort woman pushes for safe pedestrian connection across Russell Bell Bridge Read More »
