Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a win for Black landowners, Georgia’s highest court unanimously sided with Gullah Geechee communities in a long-standing zoning ...

ATLANTA — Georgia’s highest court handed the residents of Sapelo Island a legal victory, allowing a referendum to limit zoning changes on the island to head to a vote. According to a judge’s order ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a group of ...

The survivors of a ferry dock collapse that killed seven people on Georgia's Sapelo Island last year are suing the engineering and construction companies responsible for the dock's construction. The ...

2 days after voters repealed a controversial 2023 zoning change by referendum, commissioners push for rules to limit development on Georgia barrier island. A house stands in the Hogg Hummock community ...

SAPELO ISLAND, GA — The state’s highest court has ruled a vote can move forward that would regulate the size of new development on Georgia’s Sapelo Island. Gullah Geechee residents on Sapelo Island ...

Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock is one of the last remaining Gullah Geechee island communities, but it's fighting for survival on multiple fronts. Rising sea levels threaten to flood the land, while ...

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a group of Black landowners in a fight over land protections for one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities. On Tuesday, the state's highest ...