MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. — Early voting is underway in McIntosh County as residents decide whether to repeal a controversial zoning ordinance affecting Sapelo Island, home to the last Gullah Geechee ...

Nearly 85% of voters who cast ballots in a referendum backed Gullah Geechee efforts to halt the construction of large homes on Georgia's Sapelo Island.

It's a victory for the Gullah Geechee residents living in the Hogg Hammock community of Sapelo Island. Voters in coastal Georgia rejected an ordinance that would have allowed the construction of ...

WTOC is continuing to follow the impacts of McIntosh County’s special election on zoning on Sapelo Island.

New vacation homes won’t be constructed amid the modest cottages and other dwellings of Sapelo Island’s Hog Hammock — at least not yet. A Superior Court judge granted an injunction Monday against a 14 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Voters in a coastal Georgia county Tuesday rejected an ordinance allowing large homes on remote Sapelo Island, where Black landowners feared the change could saddle them with ...

Earlier this week, more than 85 percent of voters supported a referendum rejecting the rezoning.