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.

Time has a way of flushing out the good, bad and ugly aspects of historical decisions. Tom Thomson and Andy Peterson offered one account of NH’s 50 years of current use (“New Hampshire’s current use ...

When developers went to build on an 80-acre tract of rural land near the Bend Municipal Airport, developers had to blast the land with dynamite to break through the lava rock in order to lay down ...

MARTIN COUNTY — The controversial rural-lifestyle land use, which was passed here in September but held up by a challenge at the state level, will move forward after state officials ruled Tuesday that ...

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 ...

Orange County commissioners will take on the rural boundary discussion Tuesday that a citizens’ panel studied for nearly a year with advocates hopeful the elected board will put the hotly contested ...

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, ...

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 ...

Plans to build 71 homes across 710 acres of juniper woodland and shrub steppe in rural Deschutes County moved closer to reality earlier this month after a state board affirmed a Deschutes County ...