A little more than two months after being convicted on a domestic violence charge, a West Union woman is facing another charge stemming from an incident early Monday.

With no public comments and no millage increases, Oconee County Council unanimously passed the fiscal year 2018 budgets for the county, the school district and the Keowee Fire Special Tax District on Tuesday.

A Townville man was arrested over the weekend after police say he was found behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle.

Custodians are often the hardest-working, yet most underappreciated group that works in any school district. In Oconee County, the group has also been underpaid in comparison with neighboring districts.

The caseload for trial week at the Oconee County Courthouse was lightened Monday afternoon, as a Liberty man who received multiple charges from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources nearly a year ago decided to forego his scheduled trial and plead guilty.

As the 10-year anniversary of the “Honoring Their Service” program draws ever closer, residents of Oconee and Pickens counties have grown well accustomed to the pomp and circumstance that surrounds the annual event.

Nearly two years after she was charged with trying to kill her mother by covering her head with plastic shopping bags, a West Union woman has been charged with attempted murder for a second time for an incident that police say again involved plastic bags, as well as a machete and an ax.

In a 4-3 vote last week, Westminster City Council rejected Oconee County’s offer to consolidate its fire department with the county’s own.

Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis ruled drowning as the cause of death for a Spartanburg County teenager whose body was found in Lake Keowee near Salem on Sunday morning.

Walhalla City Council will hold its annual budget hearing at its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. today.