Winnetka Village Council voted unanimously to create additional protections for Lake Michigan bluffs by adopting controversial regulations around what can be built on steep slopes. Despite some ...

Henderson County Board of Commissioners gave tentative approval Tuesday to a 60 percent steep slope regulation in the land development code. The commissioners have been wrestling with the idea of ...

Perhaps the most challenging landscaping problem is that of what to plant on a steep slope. Slopes require plants that can establish quickly, tolerant of fluctuating soil moisture and potentially poor ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 5, Buncombe County’s Board of Commissioners met and took the following actions: • By a 5-0 vote, approved county staff’s recommendation to adopt stricter rules for development on ...

The Winnetka Village Council is debating changes to its lot consolidation and steep slope regulations in an effort to protect the lakefront from negative impacts of potential development. Drafted ...

Nielsen Brothers plans to cut 54 acres of timber directly behind the community of 83 homes. Locals said they were never consulted. CONCRETE — A hillside rises 1,300 feet within less than a mile, right ...

CHESTERFIELD, N.H. — Chesterfield voters will be asked on March 9 if they want to protect Spofford Lake with an ordinance that would prohibit development on slopes in the watershed that have a more ...

In the fall of 2014 when Andrew Siegmund first witnessed steep-slope logging technology, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. Siegmund said Weyerhaeuser arranged for a New Zealand outfit to travel ...

Experts told a group of about 30 residents Monday that the greatest protection homeowners and prospective home buyers can take against landslides is arming themselves with information. This year, the ...