South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has held a ceremonial bill signing in the hot summer sun to assure the air conditioners across the state will keep humming well into the future.

A large wildfire in the South Carolina mountains has doubled in size on each of the last three days.

Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation in one North Carolina county as emergency crews fought separate fires in an area of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene, while South Carolina’s governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety issued a mandatory evacuation Saturday night for parts of Polk County in western North Carolina. The agency warns residents could be trapped, injured, or killed if they remain in the impacted areas. In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster has declared a state of emergency as part of an effort to stop a blaze in Pickens County called the Table Rock Fire that started Friday in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Emergency crews in at least three states are battling small wildfires.

Hurricane Helene has weakened into a post-tropical cyclone after making landfall overnight in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

South Carolina’s governor says he is going to ask lawmakers to approve nearly $1.3 billion to bring to the state a new electric vehicle plant.

A special House committee dedicated to countering China is beginning its work, with a prime-time hearing on Tuesday designed to awaken Americans to the dangers the Chinese government poses to the United States’ economy and security.

South Carolina’s state-owned utility appears to have survived four years of turmoil to remain public.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can restart executions after an involuntary 10-year pause.

(CNN) - The former national security adviser to President Donald Trump said it is "absolutely not" appropriate for a president to ask other countries to interfere in the political process of the US. During that call, Trump also asked Zelensky to investigate the 2016 election, leaving at least one White House official "shaken" by what took place. The statements from the phone call with Zelensky and to reporters on the White House lawn have deeply troubled national security officials. McMaster served under Trump as national security adviser from early 2017 until April 2018, when he was replaced by John Bolton. McMaster said on Thursday that he had never witnessed Trump soliciting foreign assistance.