We hope you have been reading our ongoing coverage of the bill passed in Columbia requiring a 7-percentage-point increase over six years in employer contributions to the state retirement plan.

There’s a saying that pride goes before a fall — an adaption from the biblical book of Proverbs — and we can’t help but think this adage applies to the budget quandary facing the city of Westminster.

There was a time when shopping locally wasn’t as much a choice as it was a necessity.

As the world continues to turn around the Pioneer Rural Water District fiasco, we learned a few more things this week about Pioneer and its management team.

On Monday, the Keowee Key community will host the Honoring Their Service program for the eighth year.

One of the many memorable adages Dabo Swinney has uttered over the years is, “It’s only unthinkable if you don’t think it.”

One of the criticisms of increasing the state’s gas tax is that a lack of oversight in the S.C. Department of Transportation makes it difficult to understand at times why certain projects get green-lighted when other roads are clearly more in need of repair.

Among the most common types of calls we get in our newsroom are those from people who believe they’ve been targeted by scammers.

When most people think of Memorial Day, they think of a three-day weekend and a chance to hit the lake or pool, relax with friends, maybe have a cookout or visit one of many local events to listen to live music.

In the spirit of the age-old question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

With the weather turning from warm to hot, and Oconee home to some of the most scenic and accessible lakes around, it’s that time of year when boat ramps around the county will be filling up with folks ready to hit the water.

It’s been said that the wheels of justice turn slowly, but the ones in Oconee County got a much needed greasing this week when two new part-time magistrate judges were sworn in for duty.

It was Theodore Roosevelt who said, “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

It seems there is a week or month for just about everything nowadays, but May is both National Seat Belt Safety Month and Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.