As NCDEQ’s statewide blueprint for climate resilience is rolled out, it's going to be interesting to see how the rest of the state responds to what the coast has been enduring for over 50 years.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is asking the state’s highest court to block a lower court’s ruling in a dispute between the agency and a developer in Brunswick County.
The North Carolina Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday favoring a property owner in her decade-long battle with Apex over a disputed sewer line. Now a trial judge will determine how the town must compensate Beverly Rubin for illegally installing the line under her property.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will take another look at cases springing from the Map Act. That now-repealed state law allowed the state Department of Transportation to limit development of properties in designate
The bill will protect property rights from local restrictions while restricting few legitimate, desirable local regulations.
A decision promoting the "free use of land" ends up helping a charter school developer win a court fight with the town of Wake Forest.
HB 984 proposes much-needed reforms that would simplify the eviction process, reduce the administrative burden on homeowners, and ensure that NC’s laws align with the realities of today’s housing market.
Inherent in the right to own and possess property is the right to use it. And North Carolina cities and towns would be much better off if courts and local governments respected that right.
The state Supreme Court will allow plaintiffs to move forward with a lawsuit challenging Kinston’s condemnation program as racially discriminatory. The unanimous high court ruling Friday overturns a decision from North Carolina’s second-highest court.
Lawmakers file legislation that would protect the rights of private property owners.
Questions during oral arguments Wednesday suggest the North Carolina Supreme Court does not favor mandating a 30-foot buffer between an Orange County subdivision and a neighboring horse farm. Plaintiff Alison Arter sued the county and property owners involved with the Array subdivision in 2021.
