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BCTV to Premiere Latest Episode of Our Schools: Hilton Head Island Elementary
Our Schools 2023 is a reboot of an older BCTV show Our Schools. This rendition focuses more closely on Beaufort County schools, principals, students, and staff at all Beaufort County Schools. In this episode, we travel south of the Broad to Hilton Head Island Elementary School to highlight how awesome...
Photos: Tracking sea turtle nesting on Pritchards Island
Pritchards Island in Beaufort County was given to the University of South Carolina Beaufort in the 1980s. A recent influx of grant money is funding a wide variety of research projects on the island that remains in a mostly natural state. Kim Ritchie, USCB associate professor, is the director of research on the island and travels there daily, often with interns in tow, during sea turtle nesting season to track turtle activity.
FIRST ALERT: Excessive heat warning, heat advisories in effect for Lowcountry
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A three-digit heat index, or “feels like” temperature expected across the Lowcountry and the Midlands Monday prompted an excessive heat warning and a heat advisory from the National Weather Service. The LIve 5 Weather team declared Monday a First Alert Weather Day because of...
Impact Day: Heat Advisory with feels like temperature near 108°
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Savannah, Ga. (WJCL)- * Heat Advisory 11 am – 8 pm *. Impact Day… It will be another very hot day with highs in the mid to upper-90s for most areas and lower-90s at the beachfront. There is a Heat Advisory for everyone along and...
Turtles, snakes and salt marshes. Research projects abound in Beaufort County for USCB staff.
PRITCHARDS ISLAND — Mosquitos buzzed incessantly in the soft, pre-dawn light on the north shore bank of Station Creek on St. Helena Island while a team of University of South Carolina Beaufort researchers waited for their ride. A steady stream of fisherman launched their boats from the ramp, anxious...
Beaufort County men among 6 charged in sex trafficking conspiracy
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WSAV) – Two local residents have been named in an indictment unsealed last week in federal court in Boston. Alexander Smalls, 25, and Tre’sean Reid, 21, are among the six individuals charged for their alleged involvement in a sex trafficking conspiracy involving two minors and one adult that spanned three states. Christy […]
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