The City of Oakland has cleared a large homeless encampment on East 12th Street, relocating about 70 people to the Mandela ...

With Newsom and state legislators in the final throes of fashioning a new state budget, and facing chronic gaps between ...

Xavier Becerra, the former HHS head vying to succeed Gavin Newsom in the Golden State, tells VF that, with his experience, he ...

However, elements of that economic devastation continue to haunt us today. One of the most obvious examples is the explosion of homeless encampments in the nation’s downtowns, which began during ...

Fighting crime and homelessness, new moderate Mayor Daniel Lurie looks to make the city attractive for real estate again.

A new West Oakland shelter will offer clean needles and test strips to homeless residents. They see greater opportunities to ...