BEAUFORT, S.C. –- On Nov. 7, 1861, wealthy cotton plantation owners on South Carolina's St. Helena Island hastily herded their families onto whatever seaworthy vessels they could find and fled ...

Residents of St. Helena Island in South Carolina aim to keep a golf course from being developed. They want to protect the culture of the Gullah Geechee people who live there.

The notion of wealth blossoming out of the ground is not far-fetched on St. Helena Island, where my Gullah Geechee people have sustained our own culture and livelihoods for generations by farming ...

The 498-acre Pine Island/St. Helenaville is one of the last large tracts of land on St. Helena Island. Coastal Conservation League Drive down Sea Island Parkway on St. Helena Island in the winter ...

More than 5,000 people have signed an online petition to protect areas of St. Helena Island in Beaufort County from development. ... The Beaufort County Planning Commission unanimously did not ...

Vital connection: Just 4,500 people live on St. Helena, but regular flights provide a vital connection for more than 10,000 islanders living overseas, mainly in the UK.

Effectively the tip of a volcanic rock, St Helena is scarcely bigger than Jersey. The nearest land of any description is the even smaller Ascension Island, but to get somewhere more substantial ...

The MAC, a new museum blending art, food and community, opens Friday in St. Helena with an immersive Julia Child exhibit as its first course. What: St. Helena Museum of Art and Culture, known as ...