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.
“This island has had a special place in my heart from the first day I came here. I didn’t know places like this existed when I came out here and I still see something new every day that reignites my excitement … for us to see this in our lives is pretty special.”
An enchanted isle — St. Phillip’s Island isn’t a resort island, ‘it’s just peace’ Read More »
Vonna Allen had stepped outside her hotel overlooking the Sea of Galilee to write a letter of prayer to Israel. The women traveling with her had been asked to write prayers and messages of encouragement to the country. Allen carried her paper to a quiet hill near the hotel outside Capernaum, looking across the water as she began to write. Then she heard explosions. “Boom! Boom!”
Beaufort women caught in Israel during missile strikes Read More »
Continuing a seven-year run of success, The Island News took home 19 awards at the 2026 South Carolina Press Association awards luncheon Friday, March 6, 2025 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
The Island News shines at SC Press awards Read More »
Beaufort Memorial has appointed an experienced – and familiar – nurse leader as the expanding health system’s first Assistant Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO).
Beaufort Memorial appoints veteran Hildreth as 1st Assistant Chief Nursing Officer Read More »
During her 30 years at Beaufort Memorial, ICU nurse Candice “Candy” Chappell, BSN, RN, has cared for countless patients and their families, offering steadiness in some of their most vulnerable, emotional moments.
After months of hope that the long-vacant Naval Hospital property could become a new U.S. Coast Guard training center, local leaders say Beaufort County ultimately lost out when federal officials selected a site in Alabama.
Port Royal passed over for new Coast Guard training center Read More »
Residents looking for help with health care, legal issues or community resources will have a chance to connect with multiple service providers in one place later this month when a free Health and Legal Services Fair is held in Beaufort.
Health and legal services fair set for March 14 on Lady’s Island Read More »
A Beaufort County woman was killed Saturday night, March 7, in a crash along Savannah Highway in Charleston County, according to authorities.
Beaufort County woman killed in Charleston County crash Read More »
Beaufort County Council postponed a vote Monday night on a proposed ordinance regulating where firearms can be discharged in unincorporated parts of the county, after residents and officials spent more than an hour debating the balance between public safety and property rights.
County Council postpones vote on shooting ordinance Read More »
In the middle of a major effort to reduce flooding in downtown Beaufort, someone slipped into a fenced construction area near Waterfront Park late Friday or early Saturday and shut down equipment keeping the work site dry, the second such incident in recent weeks.
Police investigate breach at downtown Beaufort construction site Read More »
