McIntosh County is pushing back against its citizens’ efforts to force a county-wide vote about zoning on Sapelo Island.

The rift between Glynn County residents who see the people as threats to neighborhood safety and those working to improve outcomes for the homeless is festering this summer. Last month, County Commissioners tabled a vote on whether to permit a faith-based organization to build a night shelter for local men with jobs but nowhere to live and left advocates with no clear path forward.

Community groups in McIntosh County filed a petition in probate court Tuesday to force a county-wide vote on a controversial zoning change on Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock. 

From a nuclear submarine base in Camden County to a maritime shipping warehouse in Savannah, sea level rise is threatening essential infrastructure up and down the Georgia coast.

The promise of "40 acres and a mule" is probably the most famous attempt at reparations for slavery in the U.S., but it is mostly remembered as a broken promise.

What’s “affordable” housing depends on what’s in your wallet. But zoom out to all of coastal Georgia, cross-reference a federal guideline and it shows most four-person families can “afford” housing ranging from zero up to about $2,300 per month.  Here’s how numbers work to determine policies, challenges for families.

The Ossabaw Island Foundation says the renovation of the 100-year-old Torrey-West House will allow it to expand its programs on the largely uninhabited barrier island.

They're not in large stands like they are in South Florida, but their presence in Georgia marks another milestone for a warming planet

Georgia beaches beckon not only locals and tourists, but also nesting shorebirds and seabirds and migrating species beefing up for long flights to the Arctic.

Even before EPA issued the first ever drinking water standards for PFAS chemicals last month, state and local water officials in Coastal Georgia were monitoring for and making plans to address these “forever chemicals.”

This spring, as manatees migrate to Georgia and sea turtles spend more time at the water’s surface, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking boaters to be cautious.

Bulloch residents remain wary of effects of industrial growth on their county.

So far, 19 of the rare whales have been born in the Southeast calving area, but at least two have been struck by vessels.

A lawsuit by Black descendants of slaves that challenges zoning changes affecting their island homes is before a Georgia judge, who must decide whether to allow lawyers to amend the civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed. 

The vehicles are the latest retired vessels added to Artificial Reef L, about 23 nautical miles east of Georgia's Ossabaw Island. They joined battle tanks, barges, tugboats and concrete objects about 65 feet beneath the ocean's surface.