The Banjo Extravaganza Festival will return to the Hagood Mill Historic Site this weekend offering a weekend of toe-tapping ...

GREENVILLE — Duke Energy Carolinas has proposed a rate increase that would raise monthly electric bills for South Carolina ...

By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COUNTY — Educational efforts in the area include preparing young ...

By Bru Nimmons Staff Reporter bnimmons@thepccourier.com COUNTY — With election season inching closer, Pickens County’s ...

By Evan Smoak Courtesy The Journal evan@upstatetoday.com PICKENS — At its regularly scheduled meeting last week, Pickens ...

The kind, gentle soul of W. David Gravely left us on July 10, 2025, surrounded by his family. He was born in Pickens on Aug.

By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com PICKENS — A Pickens man faces multiple charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson said Monday.

With the increasing number of food recalls lately, it’s very tempting to buy a few rural acres and grow our own food, isn’t it? A dozen chickens, a milk cow, a veggie garden ... what else would we ...

By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COLUMBIA — More convictions and guilty pleas have been obtained in an ongoing investigation into organized crime being run from within state ...

Go on a Scavenger Hunt Whether at a beach, park, or even walking the neighborhood, families can have a list of objects that must be found. The first child to find all of the items on the list gets a ...

VA officer election debacle Dear Editor, I want to personally thank Rex Rice and the Pickens County Legislative Delegation for showing me what democracy actually looks like. Walt Carter garnered 51 ...

The VA’s Office of Inspector General recently put out a fraud alert about a series of schemes known as “pension poaching.” Veterans, heads up. You have a lot to lose if you fall for one of these scams ...