Dyal left Lake City in 2023, and investigators later said he received a severance package that overpaid him by $100,000.

And while the city didn’t raise taxes this year, Richland County did. And the city’s top budget official says it may be time to have that conversation in Columbia, too.

A quarter of city revenue comes from sales taxes, use taxes make up 4%, property tax 8%, other local taxes 11% and payments in lieu of taxes 14% (PILOT). The remainder is intragovernmental ...

The city of Columbia was using a $290,000 federal grant to plant 1,500 trees in low-income neighborhoods. The Trump administration axed the funding in February.

COLUMBIA — A four-year-old Columbia city ordinance has ignited a fight between city officials on one side and S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson and the state Senate on the other. Wilson sent a ...

The NWS said the storm caused damage in several areas, including significant impacts to the city of Columbia’s Material Recovery Facility. The Boone County Office of Emergency Management said ...