Consultant Makes Counteroffer for Bushkill Project: Land-Use Firm Aims to Amend Zoning Laws That Township Officials Say Are Legally Weak.
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By Arlene Martinez, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 8--A land-use consultant hired by Bushkill Township presented plans Thursday that officials hope will scale down a potential massive residential development.
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With millions of acres of public land available for hunting in Minnesota and Wisconsin, it might seem odd that some outdoorsmen fight over who has the right to hunt on certain land.
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By Drew Dixon  With builders honing in on the Beaches' few pieces of open land, some government officials and residents have deduced that working with, not blocking, developers could be the best option.
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Three Affiliated Tribes officials have slated a meeting with Gov. John Hoeven to talk about a plan to transfer 24,000 acres of land around Lake Sakakawea to the tribes.  Hoeven has said he opposes the plan.
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Environmentalists, sportsmen and investors wrestle over parcels sold off by timber companies that have fallen on hard times.
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Lawyers for cigarette makers on  Wednesday sought to knock down the government's $280 billion  racketeering case against the industry, telling a federal judge  that they had already addressed the government's concerns by  changing the way they do business.
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A New Jersey lawsuit could curb the rapidly proliferating local ordinances that push pedophiles into rural areas.
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By Frank Juliano, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Feb. 9--MILFORD -- Members of the Planning and Zoning Board are waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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By Jefferson George, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 22--A collection of vastly different but similarly deliberate landowners has created a contrast in development along Interstate 85 in eastern Gaston County.
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By Mary E. Young, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Dec. 15--Berks County municipalities may benefit from the dismissal of a lawsuit in which the state attorney general claimed a joint zoning ordinance was too restrictive, the county commissioners said Thursday.  Commissioner Thomas W. Gajewski Sr.
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Officials in New Jersey who are struggling to combat witness intimidation have long been concerned about cases involving one lawyerâs clients, many of them gang members.
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By Sharen Trembath  This is a last-ditch effort to let the public know about the latest attempt of the Erie County executive to balance the county budget on the back of the county parks system.
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By Paola Iuspa-Abbott, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 21--Planners are voicing opposition to a key part of an agreement to eliminate two proposed roadways west of Boca Raton.
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 12--A local Libertarian group wants to change city law to protect private landowners from efforts by the city to seize their property for economic development.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN, STAFF WRITER The state's environmental cops are often handcuffed as they try to protect the public from health risks that lurk beneath old industrial properties.
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By TANIA SOUSSAN Journal Staff Writer  The Forest Service has changed the way it updates the management plans for each of its national forests, exempting itself from a major environmental law -- and the switch has some Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists angry.
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By MATTHEW VAN DUSEN, STAFF WRITER  FRANKLIN LAKES  A series of setbacks with the Haledon Reservoir purchase is threatening to push the already distant opening of the public space even further into the future, according to borough officials.