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 ...

The joy of homemade biscuits at the dinner table or at a well-appointed breakfast is a longstanding tradition in many Southern homes. In the past, the silver or china bread and butter plates and ...

“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 ...

Unlike many families in South Carolina, Kathy and Lee McCaskill did not inherit a history of farming, much less a farm itself. Even more surprising, perhaps, is the fact that Kathy, the proud ...

With the encouragement and support of Gov. and Mrs. Henry McMaster, the Governor’s Mansion Commission began a project in 2017 to plant a new generation of trees and to refurbish the Mansion Gardens.

In a city neighborhood far away on the coast of Greece, a boy and girl grow up together, fall in love, and come to America in pursuit of higher education. As a young man, he completes his doctorate in ...

The common threads that run through Columbia’s earliest riding schools are intangible, but they are strong as a tightened girth, warm as a horse’s breath, real as the thunder of galloping hooves.

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 ...

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, ...