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After dozens of overdoses in just four days, Minnesota's biggest county is racing to reverse the troubling trend.
On Thursday, city crews cleared the encampment by Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, citing concerns over safety, fire danger and cleanliness.
City crews cleared the encampment by Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, citing concerns over safety, fire danger and cleanliness.
Following two fires at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, dozens more people living in an encampment across the river will be displaced.
Dozens of people will be displaced in St. Paul after the city served an eviction order on tents in a big encampment there. Ubah Ali visited that camp and shows us why the city says they have to shut it down.
Christopher Daniel has lived in the Phillips neighborhood since 2016 and feels what is being done to help unsheltered and sheltered residents in the Phillips neighborhood is not working.
City crews are working to clean up what's left behind from Monday’s encampment fire in south Minneapolis. Meanwhile, a coalition of neighbors — with and without homes — are letting their voices be heard.
Fires burned through two separate south Minneapolis encampments Monday afternoon.
Around 12,000 people donated, with 337 donating to the campaign for the first time.
Since partnering with MACV in 2017, WCCO has helped raise more than $4.9 million to help veterans who need housing, services and other support.
Underneath under the Hiawatha Bridge at Cedar Avenue, a small encampment burned early Friday morning.
People living in camps are forced to fire up improvised heaters to survive the cold or try and squeeze into a packed shelter. That has advocates searching for solutions.
Army veteran Delphine Littlewolf and her 7-year-old son Curtis have been living in her compact car for six months.
Emily Roth is the president of the Minnesota Children of the American Revolution and chose to help homeless veterans as her state project.
Two fires at homeless encampments in the Twin Cities is sparking concern as temperatures bottom out. People living in camps are forced to fire up improvised heaters to survive the cold or try and squeeze into a packed shelter. As our Adam Duxter reports, that has advocates searching for solutions.
Emily Roth, president of the Minnesota Children of the American Revolution and a proud granddaughter of a Vietnam veteran, chose to help homeless veterans as her state project.
Federal officials say homelessness rose 18% in 2024, driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing.
St. Paul Public Schools' Project REACH is collecting coats and blankets for children and families experiencing homelessness.
St. Paul Public Schools are looking for coats and blankets to help the nearly 900 students in the district without stable housing.
For the past six months, Delphine Littlewolf and her 7-year-old son Curtis have been living in her compact car. And like many on the street, life had caught up with her. That's when MAC-V stepped in. As WCCO's Reg Chapman shares, they first worked to gain her trust, and are now supporting her through some legal troubles.
A 2023 survey by researchers at the Wilder Foundation found a 10% increase in the state's homeless population from 2013.
The unsheltered population has grown by 10% over the last decade.
For the eighth year, WCCO is partnering with the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans in the fight to end veteran homelessness.
A homeless encampment fire in south Minneapolis spread to a nearby home Tuesday night, displacing several people.
The season's first blast of subzero temperatures settled in overnight Thursday in the Twin Cities, bringing conditions that can lead to frostbite within 30 minutes of skin exposure.
