Road projects often look simple on a public map: add turn lanes, widen an intersection, improve drainage, and move traffic faster through a busy area. A few feet at the edge of a lot can affect parking spaces, landscaping buffers, business signs, stormwater ponds, driveway access, and how close traffic sits to a storefront. That…
As heavier downpours test neighborhood drainage systems, homeowners can end up with the same frustrating question: if runoff from somewhere else is washing away the yard, who is responsible for fixing it? That is the dispute at Terry Svennsson’s home in Macon, Georgia, where he says stormwater runoff is still flooding his yard and worsening…
Home security problems do not always show up as a kicked-in front door or missing valuables. Sometimes the first visible sign is smaller: a hole in a garage door, damage to siding, a cut window screen, or a mark on a neighboring house. Two separate Prince William County, Virginia, police reports from June 15 put…
A farm owner in British Columbia engaged in a courageous fight with a cougar to save one of her baby goats. Her security camera caught the whole thing. The footage shows the cougar with its mouth and front legs wrapped around the Nigerian dwarf goat as the animal struggles to break free. Gina Moore runs…
A 911 hang-up call can leave dispatchers with almost no explanation of what is happening at a home or property. In Pamlico County, North Carolina, one hang-up call brought deputies to an attempted robbery and burglary investigation that ended with five arrests. Deputies responded to the Lynch’s Beach Road area on the evening of June…
Many home burglaries are discovered only after the homeowner returns and finds a door open, rooms disturbed, or property missing. A Greene County, Indiana, case shows the difference an active call can make when deputies respond while the situation is still unfolding. The incident happened Sunday morning on West 500 South in Lyons. According to…
A Florida mother shot a man deputies say entered her Palm Coast home uninvited and threatened her while her two children were inside. The incident happened Sunday afternoon on Big Bear Lane, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said the homeowner called 911 around 1:50 p.m. and reported that she had shot a…
Lismore residents rallied at the Lismore Quad on Saturday to call for a pause on demolitions of homes bought after the 2022 floods. According to The Echo, about 100 people attended the rally, where community members demanded that heritage-home demolitions stop, promised flood recovery be delivered, and every person be housed. The dispute is tied…
As fast-growing desert communities try to balance new homes with limited water supplies, Las Vegas homeowners are facing another summer of strict outdoor watering rules. The Las Vegas Review-Journal published a letter arguing that homeowners are being burdened over water while new housing projects and resort landscaping remain part of the valley’s larger growth debate….