Local governments across the U.S. have increasingly turned to sweeps and arrests as the number of people living on the ...

For decades, this drug and health counselor brought hope to desperate homeless people in San Francisco. But in the end, he ...

In July 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California agencies to “urgently” close homeless encampments on state property, aiming to show local officials that the state is leading by example in ...

The return of tents in the Mission District has Mayor Mark Farrell promising an “aggressive” crackdown of sidewalk camps next week — and this time he’s vowing to keep them out. “Enough is enough,” ...

In the wake of the fatal police shooting of a homeless man on Shotwell Street in the Mission District, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is declaring all homeless tent encampments to be safety hazards and ...

England has Stonehenge, Easter Island has its giant carved heads and now San Francisco has the homeless boulders of Clinton Park. A line of 24 giant rocks has mysteriously landed along the sidewalk of ...

In the past five months, Oakland has endured the tragedies of the Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people and a blaze at a halfway house that took four lives. Both buildings turned out to be deadly ...