The Georgia Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from Sapelo Island residents challenging a McIntosh County zoning change.

Sapelo Island residents sued county officials for blocking them from holding a crucial vote that could determine whether they ...

A Sapelo Island community of Gullah-Geechee descendants are awaiting a Georgia Supreme Court decision in long-running rezoning case.

The court held oral arguments in the three cases dealing with zoning code that allows for larger homes to be built on the island, that’s home to one of the state’s last in-tact Gullah Geechee ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's highest court waded Wednesday into a fight between Black landowners and local officials who ...

Georgia Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments Wednesday in an appeal of a lower court ruling that halted a referendum led by Sapelo Island residents.

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 ...

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 ...