A new online resource called the “Coastal Atlas” is helping Lowcountry coastal communities understand their environment.

In April 1983, 23-year-old Elgin woman Karen Schepers left a bar in Carpentersville and was never seen again. Now, a recently ...

Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.