Amid news that 48 people tested positive for COVID-19 aboard a Royal Caribbean ship docked in Miami this month, Carnival Cruise Line is readying to resume embarkations as long as the pandemic stays under control. At the Port of Charleston, Carnival Cruise is preparing to re-launch Carnival Sunshine on Jan. 13, the S.C. Ports Authority said. Norwegian ...

The banking industry has seen branch footprints shrink nationwide over the past several years as customers go mobile. But South Carolina is going against that trend as the state had the highest number of new bank branch openings in the country last year, with seven new branches, according to S&P ...