In communities where agriculture is central to local identity and economy, opposition to wind and solar projects is reshaping the pace and location of energy investments.

Abel Dowden, age 20, grew up on his family’s beef farm in the Missouri Ozarks. He just got married and is ready to start his own farm. Dowden had his eye on a neighboring place but he is a day late ...

CHESAPEAKE — City Council is poised to consider a resolution that would close a land use development loophole in an effort to preserve more of its rural, agricultural land. Over the past few months, ...

MARTIN COUNTY — County commissioners may have reignited a controversy over potential development on the county's western land. Commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to change the "rural lifestyle" land-use ...

CHESAPEAKE — Concerned by the growth of subdivisions in rural parts of the city with limited infrastructure, Chesapeake leaders have taken a series of actions to close a “loophole” that for decades ...