By Kelly Marshall Fuller, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Feb. 14--A conference that will focus on water-related issues, including the ongoing drought and the effect of water pollution, will be held March 1 at the Waccamaw Higher Education Center in Litchfield Beach.

By Steve Jones, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Feb. 10--Buddy Freeman remembers when his children were young and wanted to play at Crabtree Canal: His wife wouldn't let them unless he went along.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The black waters of the Grand Strand's Waccamaw River now run much clearer, thanks to a drought gripping much of the Southeast.

By Steve Jones, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Dec. 23--SHALLOTTE, N.C. T he drought of 2007 has done to the Waccamaw River what eons of geological changes did not.

By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Sep. 26--Air quality, water quality and effects on human health are issues that people want the Army Corps of Engineers to study when it considers a permit for a new Santee Cooper coal-fired power plant.