Less than a month ago, Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo opened the new, multimillion-dollar Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Aquarium and Reptile Conservation Center to great fanfare, with a ribbon-cutting ...

Start the holiday season this weekend. Venues across the Columbia area will begin their holiday lights shows this weekend.

In our Inside Look stories, The State's journalists take you inside places around South Carolina that you maybe haven't seen before. Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. Visitors to one of ...

Riverbanks Zoo and Garden officially has no elephants. An African elephant named Belle, the last inhabitant at the Columbia zoo’s elephant exhibit, was moved to her new home Wednesday. The 38-year-old ...

Riverbanks Zoo is mourning the loss of one of the zoo community’s favorite animals. Sundance, one of Riverbanks’ two grizzly bears, died Saturday after a period of declining health, the zoo announced ...

There are two new residents at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, a pair of female southern white rhinoceros. Visitors will soon be able to see Kande and Winnifred, as a rhino exhibit returns to the Columbia ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia is mourning the loss the zoo’s first infant gorilla. The infant gorilla was born in the breech position Thursday morning. "Our staff is ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The City of Columbia has experienced an overflow of sanitary sewer at two locations near Riverbanks Zoo & Gardens in Richland County on Jan. 2-3, 2021. Initial reports of an overflow ...