Ali Rockett

2 days ago | postandcourier.com | Ali Rockett

CHARLESTON — Nearly two dozen people pushed out of the townhomes they own surrounding the shuttered Dockside condominium tower are challenging the city's evacuation order in court. Attorney Andrew Platte filed a civil complaint June 3 in Charleston's Court of Common Pleas on behalf of townhome owners including Ryan Earhart, who runs the law firm Earhart Overstreet LLC, where Platte works.

5 days ago | postandcourier.com | Ali Rockett

CHARLESTON — Golfers at the city's municipal course can now find "relief" at bathrooms, located along both the front and back nine holes. For years, the 18-hole course locals call "The Muni" has been without permanent facilities. Those who are answering nature's call while playing did so in a portable toilet. Or they found a nearby tree.

2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Ali Rockett |Kailey Cota

CHARLESTON — City officials are considering a curfew along King Street and the city's central business district after 9 p.m. for anyone 17 years old or younger. Police Chief Chito Walker called the curfew a "practical tool" to deter what Mayor William Cogswell referred to as "mobs of teenagers" from congregating in the heart of Charleston's nightlife corridor.

2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Ali Rockett |Anna Sharpe

JOHNS ISLAND — A 30-foot sailboat bobs in a narrow channel cut through the spartina marsh grass along New Cut Creek. Wind hasn't filled its blue sails since at least August, according to neighbors who nervously watched the vessel drift until Helene's tropical storm-force gusts lodged it in the marsh. SCDNR doesn't consider Rebellion abandoned

2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Ali Rockett

CHARLESTON —  City officials want to take "complete control" over developing the remaining 18 acres of the WestEdge project near the Ashley River to increase housing stock on the peninsula, according to new details from Mayor William Cogswell. The project has been paused amid legal challenges to filling what is left of the tidal creek that once flowed on Charleston's West Side.