A prestigious historically black university may soon be expanding its facilities to crime-plagued Oakland, California, a ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Friday that a planned increase in federal immigration enforcement was on pause throughout the ...

Unlike Sam Jones Hall in Santa Rosa or the Guerneville Veterans Memorial Building shelter, with large shared bunk rooms that resemble disaster evacuation centers, the new dorm-like shelter features 40 ...

To bring the stories of the homeless community and those who have been directly impacted by encampment sweeps to a larger audience, the grassroots organization POOR Magazine has been spreading […] ...

Representatives from Mayor Barbara Lee’s office joined a group headed south to learn how cities and counties there tackle the homelessness crisis.

Homeless encampments are a part of the landscape in many U.S. cities. In Oakland, California, one of the longest-standing and ...

Prescott Station opens in West Oakland, offering 235 affordable apartments on a former homeless encampment site.

The site of what was once a sprawling homeless encampment in West Oakland has become an affordable housing complex for ...

Family Matters’ alum Darius McCrary’s rep exclusively tells Us his team plans to fight the criminal charges brought over ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s hard to stay calm when it’s your job to rid Oakland of trash. Josh Rowan, the city’s acting public works director, becomes irate when he drives through the canyons of cardboard ...

DEER, THEY’RE PROBABLY MORE CLOSE BEHIND. >> TODAY MARKED A DAY OF GIVING TO SOME OF THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST. WORLD HOMELESS DAY. LEADERS MARKED THAT DAY WITH A COMMUNITY FAIR. 16 WAPT’S KENDALL JONES ...

OAKLAND — An affordable housing development has been proposed for the site of a peace center and former church just north of downtown Oakland, documents on file with city officials show.