For decades, south Darlington residents and businesses have faced severe flooding after heavy rains. Ditches regularly overflow, causing damage to property and creating unhealthy living conditions. Finally, some help has arrived.

Former Bennettsville Mayor Lucy Mills Parsons will speak on solid waste at the next meeting of the League of Women Voters of the Pee Dee Area.

Marion County school districts will receive $264,000 in federal stimulus funds from the South Carolina Budget and Control Board’s State Energy Office to make energy efficiency improvements.

The South Carolina Forestry Commission and the USDA Forest Service have confirmed that a devastating disease of redbay and other plants has been identified in a Socastee neighborhood.

An agricultural expert solves the mystery of what created a 30-foot-cocoon in a Myrtle Beach yard.

Twelve schools across the Carolinas have been selected as finalists in the Progress Energy SunSenseSM schools program, including South Florence and West Florence in Florence. Five of the finalists will receive solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the coming months, as part of a partnership between Progress Energy Carolinas and the Carolina Hurricanes Kids ’N Community Foundation.

The S.C. Bioenergy Summit is returning to Florence on Thursday. The second annual event is hosted by Clemson University, the S.C. Energy Office and the S.C. Biomass Council and will feature presentations on the impacts of climate change legislations, bioenergy research in South Carolina and emerging biomass industries.

Will Wattles, professor of psychology at Francis Marion University, will present “Natural treasures at the far ends of U.S. 1,”  to the Pee Dee Group-Sierra Club on Thursday.

DHEC conducted a meeting to address the proposed Johnson Controls battery plant to be located on Paper Mill Road in Florence.

The Marlboro County Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on a proposed landfill at Wallace isn’t until Tuesday, but members of Citizens for Marlboro County are already working to pack the room and defeat the appeal.

Grass grows over empty beer cans and soda bottles at the only public landing on Prestwood Lake. Cigarette butts and scraps of plastic are mixed with the gravel.

Thousands of South Carolinians are heading to the water’s edge this weekend to clean up litter and debris.

The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control is overseeing a cleanup project in Dillon County that will temporarily close a boat ramp.

The company behind plans for a proposed landfill in Marlboro County has appealed the week-old decision by two county committees to ban the project.

At a public meeting held Tuesday evening, both Marlboro County Council and the county’s Planning Commission voted unanimously against re-zoning for the controversial megadump in Wallace.