Billboards have come a long way since the shaving cream signs erected one after another on the roadsides, or the Mail Pouch entreaties painted on the sides of yesteryear's barns.

Judge rules that city law does indeed ban new signs from going up, but Planning Commission might change ordinance to allow them

Throughout Texas, as many as 45,000 billboards line roadways -- an increase of 10,000 from a decade ago, Scenic Texas estimates. El Paso has about 1,200 billboards.

Billboard opponents won a surprising victory Wednesday against a well-financed effort to allow clear-cutting in front of highway advertisements.

A federal judge has thrown out challenges to the constitutionality of the city’s regulation of billboards and other outdoor advertising on arterial highways and in certain zoning districts.

A City Council panel that found billboards to be a type of pollution plans to clean it up.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, losing money and beset with complaints about high fares and poor service, has decided that a winning strategy is to start irritating the communities it serves.

In a tersely worded letter to the MBTA, Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch called the agency’s plans to erect a revenue-boosting billboard along Burgin Parkway “quite offensive” and said he is ready to fight to keep it out of the city.

Vandals are taking aim at billboards and police fear someone will get hurt. Police have taken several reports of the signs being hit with bullets. Five incidents have been reported in the last six weeks and all are located around major expressways. Now, the sign company is fighting back.

Ads, signs or billboards that clutter roadsides can be hazardous for older drivers, according to the latest study.