Parents and guardians who hope to make an informed daycare decision for their children could be left without key safety information when a daycare closes its doors, then reopens.

The anxiety is borne of widespread misinformation, lingering resentment over COVID mandates and politicians sowing mistrust ...

Several churches are now paying fire fees after the city clarified an exemption that allowed them to skip out on the fee for years.

Jackson County Executive Phil Levota is addressing the county's inconsistent processes for churches to refile for tax exemptions, aiming to standardize it and ensure compliance with the law.

COLUMBIA, S.C. As the largest measles outbreak in two decades drags on in the Upstate, an effort to keep children who haven’t been vaccinated due to religious reasons out of school was effectively ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina is now experiencing the largest measles outbreak in the United States in more than two decades, according to the state Department of Public Health, prompting ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A panel of senators effectively killed a bill that would have removed religious exemptions for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, even as the state faces a measles outbreak that ...

Swati Amin gives a COVID-19 vaccine to Daniel Carbajal at the NC Heart and Vascular Hospital at UNC Rex in Raleigh, on Dec. 17, 2020. Julia Wall jwall@newsobserver.com Rex Healthcare has agreed to pay ...

Back in 2019, an outbreak of mumps centered on the College of Charleston drove South Carolina to the top of the nation in the rate of adult mumps cases. There was a good bit of concern, less about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How easy is it to get a religious exemption from vaccines in NJ? When legislative efforts failed to eliminate religious exemptions ...

A box containing vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella sits on a cooler at a mobile clinic on February 6, 2026 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The clinic offered free vaccinations as the South ...