Historic downtown Aiken was green before being green was cool. The city’s 174 parkways give Aiken its signature identity. Azaleas and dogwoods paint the parkways pink and white in spring, and in ...

Downtown Aiken has plenty of shopping opportunities, especially independently owned boutiques and stores. Head to Laurens ...

Aug. 2—A building in downtown Aiken and seven trees will be removed to make way for a new church parking lot and six new trees. The Aiken Design Review Board voted 4-0 to approve a request from ...

Fall color in downtown Aiken comes by way of several Chinese pistache trees, according to retired City arborist Tom Rapp. The trees, which line the centers of the angular parking spaces downtown ...

Aiken was recognized for a 24-foot singing tree, 1,000 luminaries lining downtown, decorated trees at the visitor’s center and Christmas in Hopelands, where more than 2 miles of live-oak shaded ...

Aug. 21—Crews will soon begin clearing a wooded lot near downtown Aiken, a sign that the much-anticipated Hitchcock Woods stormwater project is moving forward. The 2-acre lot to be grubbed, as ...

Jul. 15—Removing the siding from the façade of a downtown Aiken business unveiled a piece of the city's history Friday evening. Aiken Mayor Rick Osbon said a sign marking the former office of ...

The city of Aiken is looking to add a mixed-use development project in the downtown area. It’s a move city leaders say is the start of redevelopment for the area.

Aiken's downtown could soon see a new hotel, conference center and a parking garage. The Aiken Municipal Development Commission announced Thursday its plans to buy property in the downtown district.

A coroner said a car ran off I 20 and crashed into several trees then went up in flames, but the driver wasn’t ID’d because of severe burns.

Aiken was recognized for a 24-foot singing tree, 1,000 luminaries lining downtown, decorated trees at the visitor’s center and Christmas in Hopelands, where more than 2 miles of live-oak shaded ...