Welcome to our 2027 Best of Columbia Ballot! You’ve nominated and now it’s time to vote! Please choose the names of your favorite local businesses in the categories below. The voting process will ...

But television personality Jan Jeffcoat makes her own and, in the process, has gone from Columbia storyteller to nationally ...

Even though college football continues to embrace technology, from helmet communicators to replay reviews, some aspects haven ...

“You have a gift the most noble; freedom was given to you by us who fought for your happiness, while you dangled on your mother’s knee.” — Titus Lany, South Carolina militiaman The rest of the country ...

Betty Barton knows a thing or two about weddings — for more than 37 years, the longtime member of Eastminster Presbyterian Church also served as the church’s in-house wedding planner, a role that ...

Izzy twists her head as she scans her surroundings with the discerning eye of a trained hunter. Toes tipped with sharp talons adjust their grip on her perch. She stretches her wings once, twice. Then, ...

One evening in 1966, C.W. Bowman arrived home to find his mother crying on the front porch. His father grinned, greeted him with a mock salute, and handed him a brown envelope. “I said, ‘Well, I guess ...

When more than a century of history went up in flames, Columbians gasped in disbelief as the beautiful cupola atop the former S.C. State Hospital’s historic Babcock Building collapsed to the basement ...

Forty miles northeast of Columbia lies beautiful Lake Wateree. Stretching from just north of Camden nearly to Great Falls, the lake crosses three counties: Kershaw, Fairfield, and Lancaster. It was ...

Many brides have a close relationship to the officiant of their wedding. But when Sarah Jackson Smith stood with Kubi Johnson in front of the priest who was about to join them in matrimony, that ...

Riverbanks Zoo and Garden celebrated its 50 th anniversary earlier this year. At the top of the excited first-time visitors’ list of animals they expected to see were the lions, among the most iconic ...

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lawson Lott, Jr., made history this year — not only for himself but, as he is quick to point out, the nearly 900-employee Richland County Sheriff’s Department he leads, ...