Time Warner Cable on Monday opened a new customer service center inside its Midlands’ campus at 3347 Platt Springs Road. The full-service center provides customer service for billing, equipment and service-related matters. It also showcases all of the company’s services, such as digital cable, high-speed Internet, home phone and wireless products. The new center replaces the West Columbi...

More travelers are expected to hit the road – and the skies – this Memorial Day weekend.That increased travel, vital to the economy of a state with a huge tourism sector, comes as gas prices in South Carolina have fallen to the cheapest in the nation and more people are finding jobs

Charleston business leaders are getting an update on the impact of the cruise business in the city.The Charleston Metro Chamber's Charleston Community Connect hears Wednesday from the State Ports Authority's director of business development, Peter Lehman.Lehman is releasing the projected economic impact a new cruise terminal on the Charleston waterfront will have on the region.He's also updating l...

Despite a shaky economy and the specter of higher gas prices, tourism is expected to continue its solid improvement this year in the Carolinas, where it means almost $39 billion to the two states’ economies.“We’re in the midst of a slow-motion recovery, but tourism remains

Tourism in the Carolinas is expected to continue a solid recovery this year from the Great Recession.Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce president Brad Dean says that while the recovery has been slow, tourism has been a bright spot for the economy.Travel means a combined $39 billion to the economies of the two states.In North Carolina, hotel occupancy rates were up 7 percent statewide through last No...

The Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital is forming a partnership with Carnival Cruise lines, which sails regularly from Charleston.Hospital and Carnival officials gather Monday to make the announcement.The partnership will include a number of in-kind and monetary donations by the line as well as fundraisers.Last May the 2,056-passenger Carnival Fantasy arrived in Charleston, b...

At least a half dozen hotel projects are in the works in historic Charleston on the South Carolina coast in a sign the recession may be fading.The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Monday that hotel occupancy on the Charleston peninsula has increased every month since last spring. Last month alone, occupancy was up more than 12 percent over August of 2009.The hotel projects range from those ...

Though the economy has been in the tank, at least a couple of local experts say things are beginning to look up.At Tuesday's Myrtle Beach City Council meeting, Don Schunk, research economist for Coastal Carolina University, said Myrtle Beach has laid solid groundwork

The grim economy is hitting some consumers in the wallet in yet another way: their water bills.Many water utilities are raising rates because water use is down, in part because manufacturers have closed or are cutting back, tourism has fallen and the real estate market is in the doldrums.Water

A Federal Reserve executive takes a look into the future during a meeting on the South Carolina coast.Matthew Martin, senior vice president and Charlotte regional executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, offers his outlook for the federal and state economies in North Charleston on Wednesday.Also speaking are Mary Graham, a senior vice president of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce...