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AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - In Aiken, filing is open for four out of seven City Council positions. Districts 2, 4, 5 and 6 are ...
Four seats on Aiken City Council are up for election this year.Candidate filing opened today at noon. The seats up for grabs ...
A teenager’s body was found by the side of a South Carolina road early Sunday morning, according to the Aiken County Coroner’s Office. Tranard E. Sheppard, an 18-year-old Warrenville resident ...
An Aiken County teenager died from multiple gunshot wounds early Sunday in Warrenville. Tranard E. Sheppard, 18, was pronounced dead at about 3 a.m. He was found on the side of the road on the 400 ...
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A program expansion is helping inmates break free of drug addiction at the Aiken County Detention Center. Through funding from the South Carolina Opioid Recovery Fund ...
Aiken County Council on June 17 unanimously approved a 2025-2026 fiscal year budget with a 3% raise for all county employees, no property tax increase.
The Aiken County Animal Shelter, along with Friends Of The Animal Shelter (FOTAS), is hosting a Summer Adoption Paw-ty this Saturday, June 21, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Governor Henry McMaster today issued Executive Order 2025-22 to expedite the replacement of the Old Vaucluse Road I-20 overpass bridge in Aiken County, which was destroyed in a tanker ...
An aerial photograph June 15, 2025, shows the former site of the Old Vaucluse Road bridge that had stretched across Interstate 20 in Aiken County until its collapse early June 14.
UPDATE | As of Sunday afternoon, both directions of I-20 are now open to traffic at mile marker 13 in Aiken County, according to the South Carolina Department of Transportation. SCDOT says, after a… ...
AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. (WJBF) – An early morning crash involving a fuel truck shut down a major stretch of I-20 eastbound in Aiken County Saturday.