Victoria Hansen
Victoria Hansen is our Lowcountry connection covering the Charleston community, a city she knows well. She grew up in newspaper newsrooms and has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. Her first reporting job brought her to Charleston where she covered local and national stories like the Susan Smith murder trial and the arrival of the Citadel’s first female cadet.
An opportunity to anchor the news for an ABC affiliate took her to Nashville, Tennessee. But summer vacations were always spent in Charleston. She moved back in 2006 to the city she calls home to anchor and report again at the tv station where she began.
Victoria has volunteered and served as a spokesperson for numerous nonprofits. She has been honored with multiple Emmys as well as a Community Service Award from the South Carolina Broadcasters Association. It is her passion for community service that brings her to South Carolina Public Radio.
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The Coast Guard completed its hearings on why the Titan submersible imploded last year as it was taking passengers to view the Titanic, killing everyone on board.
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Tropical Storm Debby has dumped record amounts of rain onto Coastal South Carolina. In Charleston, people are starting to clean up as Debby slowly moves north.
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In South Carolina, people are being urged to stay off the roads as the remnants of Hurricane Debby move across the state. The storm has soaked Florida and Georgia as it creeps along the coast.
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It once was the largest slave port in America. Its state was the first Civil War site. And it's a city that started a reparations effort, then it stopped, and now it's started again.
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The state law has been interpreted as banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood argues the ban is vague and shouldn't apply until at least three weeks later in pregnancy. -
A woman unable to schedule an abortion before her sixth week of pregnancy in her home state of South Carolina is suing — the latest challenge to the state's so-called "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban.
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Josephine Wright, a South Carolina woman who fought developers on Hilton Head Island, has died. She had celebrity support for her cause of trying to keep her home.
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Residents of St. Helena Island in South Carolina aim to keep a golf course from being developed. They want to protect the culture of the Gullah Geechee people who live there.
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The International African American Museum opens Tuesday in Charleston, S.C. It's built on the site of Gadsden's Wharf, where enslaved Africans entered the country.
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The man-made island near Charleston is serving as a sanctuary for thousands of shorebirds. It's a beneficial way to use soil from dredging rivers. (Story aired on ATC on June 12, 2023.)
