Homeless encampments are a part of the landscape in many U.S. cities. In Oakland, California, one of the longest-standing and most well-known encampments was at Union Point Park. It was right by the ...

OAKLAND — An affordable housing development has been proposed for the site of a peace center and former church just north of ...

The mayor recently completed 100 days in office and gives her State of the City speech Tuesday. Oakland experts credit her ...

Cities around the Bay Area have been debating how to handle people camping in public places or living in RVs. Oakland may ...

Families of 15 public school students sued California on Monday, claiming the state has failed to provide equal education to poor and minority children during the pandemic.

Three years before an alleged plot to bribe Oakland’s mayor surfaced, Mario Juarez applied for city funds to invest in properties — alarming at least one city staffer.

Blazes that firefighters thought had died but then later came roaring back to life have become increasingly common, heightening scrutiny of how first-responders put out wildfires.

Some homes were ordered evacuated in wildfire-scarred Los Angeles neighborhoods as Southern California was hit by a rare ...

Cardboard boxes, broken appliances, and mattresses litter Oakland's streets, turning the California city into a battleground against trash as officials and residents scramble for solutions to an ...

California’s SAFE task force is being celebrated by leaders as a successful encampment removal effort, but advocates are ...

Denver7 spoke with one of three providers planning to take over operations at city-owned homeless shelters after the city's ...