The potential buyer of state-owned Santee Cooper says it would keep assets connected with the utility, including the lakes, dams, environmental and recreational sites. "NextEra Energy’s ...

Captain David Murdaugh, my guide for the day, piloted his boat through the narrow backwater away from Black’s Camp and into the diversion canal separating the two lakes of Santee Cooper Country.

Several years ago my two sons and I were driving to one of the Santee Cooper lakes for a day of boating. I noticed a billboard on the side of the road and read it to my boys. It said ...

COLUMBIA — If the South Carolina Legislature opts to sell Santee Cooper, lakes Moultrie and Marion could dry up unless taxpayers take over the $11 million annual cost of maintaining the 180,000 ...

"There's no doubt about it, we're at the lowest point we've been for striper since the Santee Cooper lakes have been here," said Scott Lamprecht, a fisheries biologist for the Department of ...

Earlier this week, Santee Cooper was expecting and preparing for near-historic flows coming from North Carolina to make its way downstream into Lake Marion. Now, Santee Cooper has begun to ...

COLUMBIA, SC The state-owned Santee Cooper power company is releasing more water from Lake Marion into the Santee River because of rainfall in recent weeks. In a news release Monday, the company ...

Last Saturday, Sept. 10, was a day for big alligators in South Carolina’s Santee-Cooper Lakes Complex. Two separate groups of hunters each pulled a giant, 13-foot gator out of the lakes that afternoon ...