If the two chambers can solve their differences, a bigger showdown looms. The General Assembly passed a similar bill in 2023 that the state Supreme Court struck down. The justices pointed out in their ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that it now seems clear lawmakers are not just being blasé about the program’s legal ...

Columbia City Manager Teresa Wilson says the new plan would allow student housing, but would limit the number of bedrooms.

Nearly 1,000 students of the 2,880 approved for the $6,000 scholarships, to be dolled out in four $1,500 installments throughout the year, were removed from the program in October after initial ...