The Georgia Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from Sapelo Island residents challenging a McIntosh County zoning change. Islanders fear the new zoning rules will lead to sharp increases in ...

Residents of Sapelo Island's Hogg Hummock community are challenging 2023 zoning amendments that allow larger homes, fearing it will lead to increased property taxes and displacement. The Georgia ...

Reginald Hall traveled nearly six hours from the quiet of his home in Sapelo Island to Atlanta to hear a landmark case that could shape the future of his historic community in Georgia. Last year ...

The Gullah Geechee of Sapelo Island live a simple, traditional life in a community free of the vacation getaway vibe of other oceanfront locales along Georgia’s coast. Whether that lifestyle ...

MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - The legal battle over zoning on Sapelo Island has made its way to the Georgia State Supreme Court. The court held oral arguments in the three cases dealing with zoning ...

The sparsely populated, Hog Hammock district of Sapelo Island, Georgia, which is home to what is believed to be the last intact community of West African slave descendants, faces persistent pressures ...

Today, piles of ancient oyster shells are noticeable to people like Holland-Lulewicz, trained to see anomalies in soil layers ... one 163-acre section of Sapelo Island is made up of around ...

Residents of largely unspoiled Sapelo Island have been trying to roll back zoning changes imposed by McIntosh County officials that doubled the size of homes allowed in a tiny enclave called Hogg ...

About 96% of Sapelo is owned by the state. In the 434-acre neighborhood of Hogg Hummock, about 250 acres are owned by descendants of enslaved people brought to the island from West Africa.

The Supreme Court is weighing the Sapelo Island case as residents recover from an unrelated tragedy. Hundreds of tourists were visiting the island on Oct. 19 when a walkway collapsed at the state ...