Poor management by the international group that oversees the waters of the Great Lakes led to hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage due to flooding two out of the last three years, New York officials claim in a lawsuit.
Read moreTwo Texas Republicans prevented their Democratic colleagues from voting to raise property taxes in the Houston area on Tuesday by not showing up for a meeting of the county’s executive board.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit upheld the constitutionality of a Hammond, Indiana, ordinance that requires residential property owners to hire a licensed contractor repair the home, or do the repairs themselves, if they derive income from it. Homeowners who occupy their own property get an exemption.
Read moreMore than 100 people sued Sundance Energy Oklahoma and 20 other companies in Oklahoma County Court, claiming their wastewater injection and fracking caused earthquakes that damaged their property.
Read moreA homeowner and an artist brought a federal complaint over a law in Fraser, Colo., that blocks people from erecting signs in their yards “to protest President Donald Trump and call for action on global warming.”
Read more(CN) — Natural gas companies can no longer rely on federal law to pay less than fair-market value for land
Read moreA descendant of the last German kaiser on Tuesday lost a court bid for the return of a castle overlooking the Rhine valley, part of which has been turned into a hotel.
Read more
Oregon property owners complained to federal regulators Monday that they were kept in the dark about a proposal to build a natural-gas pipeline on their land.
Read moreProtesters and Louisiana residents whose land is crisscrossed by oil and gas pipelines filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a state law that makes it a felony to be on a pipeline, even an unmarked, buried one.
Read moreSending a message about the value of maintaining affordable visitor accommodations along California’s coast, the state’s Coastal Commission on Wednesday issued its largest fine ever — $15.58 million — to a luxury hotel owner that demolished two affordable motels in Santa Monica to build a high-priced property near the world-famous pier.
Read moreThe Court of Federal Claims refused to dismiss a challenge by landowners to a rail-to-trail conversion.
Read moreThe author of a Texas bill proposing to raise the state sales tax rate by 1% made his case before a committee Wednesday, forecasting that within 10 years it would raise $10 billion annually to lower property taxes and help schools.
Read moreWhen John Scopes taught the theory of evolution in a Tennessee school in 1925, he committed a misdemeanor punishable only by a fine. But yet the Scopes “monkey trial,” with Clarence Darrow as star defense attorney and celebrity prosecutor Williams Jennings Bryan, has gone down as one of the most significant trials of the 20th Century.
Read moreThe Court of Federal Claims dismissed a complaint by cattle ranch owners about military flyovers, as flyovers are not a taking for which the ranchers can be compensated.
Read moreAn Alaskan moose hunter who challenged a regulation that bans him from using a hovercraft while on federal land won a reversal Tuesday from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreFuture public-land sales will involve consideration, for the first time, of public access for hunting, fishing and other recreational activities, the secretary of the interior announced Thursday.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit on Thursday rejected landowners’claims that the Dakota Access pipeline developer used unfair tactics to persuade them to sell property for the pipeline’s construction.
Read more