The issue has divided Fremont: dozens of residents have appeared at recent council meetings to oppose the proposal, while other residents have gathered more than 1,300 signatures in an online ...

Adams is one of at least 162 homeless people who died in Sacramento in 2024. The coroner’s office is still calculating the total number for the year. In 2023, 325 homeless people died in Sacramento, ...

Brea Seeks To Crack Down On Homeless Camps: Brea is the latest in a wave of Orange County cities taking aim at homeless camps. Its city council voted unanimously to take the first steps toward making ...

The Monterey County/Salinas Homeless Union formed “out of a battle” in 2016, nine years ago today, on Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

Evan Greene, 32, of Richmond, was charged with murder and gun possession in the Jan. 14 killing of 23-year-old Jerome Hunter. Prosecutors also charged 28-year-old Coraneshea Savage, of Vallejo, with ...

The U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego on Dec. 5, 2024. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters From CalMatters’ Wendy Fry:  In a significant escalation of immigration enforcement, the Pentagon said today that ...

After a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer granted local governments broad new authority to clear homeless camps, the mayors of the Bay Area’s three major cities vowed to ...

Louisiana authorities have begun clearing homeless encampments in New Orleans, removing people under threat of arrest and relocating many to a warehouse facility ahead of the Super Bowl hosted by ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Oakland parents are raising concerns about homeless encampments near four East Oakland schools, citing safety risks and the impact on their children. The encampments ...

Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?

The stakes are particularly high in California, where nearly 186,000 people already live on the streets or in shelters — an 8 percent increase since 2022. Homeless people already have greater ...

For a couple of years, residents living near the homeless encampment in the woods off Route 66 have complained of trash, human waste and the impact the camp has had on the value of their homes.