OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general and two governors in suing the Trump Administration ...

The Phoenix, an affordable housing complex, opens in West Oakland to help low-income and formerly homeless residents.

City officials in Oakland approved a contentious new policy that will prohibit homeless people from setting up tents in parks or near homes, businesses, schools and some churches in the city that has ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- An audit of Oakland's response to the rise in homeless encampments found the city was "not adequately prepared to shoulder such a massive project." "The city did not have a ...

Oakland city crews have pulled 75 truckloads — about 250 tons — of debris out of the sprawling homeless encampment that surrounds the Fruitvale Home Depot in the past two weeks. “And we still have 50 ...

Two years ago, as a stopgap measure, Oakland set up toilets, washstands and garbage cans at two of the city’s biggest homeless camps. It was supposed to be the first step toward getting people off the ...

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 ...