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Overview
The Post and Courier in Charleston, founded in 1803 and often called the oldest daily in the South, is South Carolina's largest newspaper and has expanded into Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach and Spartanburg. The State in Columbia is the main paper for the State House, and the Greenville News, the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, the Sun News in Myrtle Beach, the Island Packet in Hilton Head, the Aiken Standard, the Morning News in Florence, the Herald in Rock Hill and the Times and Democrat in Orangeburg cover their regions. The SC Daily Gazette covers state government online.
South Carolina newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for master in equity sales, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 46 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the county clerks' public indexes.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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South Carolina Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for South Carolina. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major South Carolina newspapers and what they cover
The Post and Courier covers Charleston, the port, the Lowcountry and, through its statewide bureaus, state government and the South Carolina Supreme Court, with back issues from the 1800s onward in the digital archives. The State covers Columbia, the legislature and the federal court. The Greenville News covers the Upstate, the Sun News covers Horry County and the Grand Strand, and the Island Packet covers Beaufort County. County weeklies such as the Clinton Chronicle, the Kingstree News and the Pickens County Courier carry county council minutes, sheriff's reports and probate court notices.
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Historic South Carolina newspapers online
The South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program at the University of South Carolina Libraries offers free digitized South Carolina newspapers from 1732 onward and contributes to Chronicling America. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History in Columbia and the South Caroliniana Library hold newspaper microfilm for every county, and the Charleston County Public Library provides free access to the Post and Courier archive with a library card and keeps an obituary index. The Richland Library does the same for the State.
- South Carolina Digital Newspaper ProgramFree digitized South Carolina newspapers from the University of South Carolina
- Chronicling America, South Carolina newspapersHistoric South Carolina newspapers from the Library of Congress
- South Carolina public noticesStatewide search of legal notices published in South Carolina newspapers
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in South Carolina
South Carolina law requires master in equity and foreclosure sale notices, probate notices to creditors, name changes, tax sales and county council and municipal notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the South Carolina Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Nearly every South Carolina daily and most of the weeklies carry obituaries, and the Charleston and Richland libraries keep obituary indexes. Court coverage pairs with the public case indexes that South Carolina county clerks of court post online.
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Straight answers
South Carolina Newspaper Directory, questions
What is South Carolina's largest newspaper?
The Post and Courier in Charleston, often called the oldest daily in the South, followed by the State in Columbia, the Greenville News, the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg and the Sun News in Myrtle Beach.
Where are historic South Carolina newspapers online?
The South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program at the University of South Carolina offers free digitized titles from 1732 onward, and Chronicling America adds more.
Where are South Carolina foreclosure notices published?
Master in equity sale notices run in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the South Carolina Press Association's statewide public notice search.