Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

A proposal intended to expedite land use and development permitting would restrict the types of evidence state agencies could use to justify protection of threatened and endangered species.

Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now.

Every city and county is required by state law to have a General Plan, and those General Plans must be updated periodically.

Gov. Jared Polis and influential Democrats want to open up large swaths of Colorado’s cities to denser development and make fundamental changes to how growth happens in Colorado. The bill, which is ...

Nine years ago, state lawmakers set up a test. The question was whether giving slack for rules around a pillar of Oregon’s land use system — the urban growth boundary — could provide a new tool for ...