Sacramento Levee Maintenance Work To Start This Week
City crews will be working on shoring up levees and critical waterways ahead of the rainy season.
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City crews will be working on shoring up levees and critical waterways ahead of the rainy season.
Sacramento leaders unveiled a new roadmap for the city's homeless crisis.
Stanislaus County officials report that in 2019 homelessness in the county increased by 9.6 percent or 184 people.
The mayor of Sacramento is proposing the city spends up to $5 million to buy 500 tiny homes for the homeless.
A nonprofit that's spent the last decade working to address the homeless crisis is finally moving forward with a pilot project.
A local health clinic is traveling throughout Sacramento to provide free coronavirus testing for Sacramento County's homeless population.
Health officials say two homeless people in Sacramento County have tested positive for coronavirus.
In an effort to protect the homeless population and slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Sacramento City Council approved a $15 million homeless response plan Tuesday.
Working with FEMA, the state has secured roughly 7,000 hotel rooms that will be used as housing during this crisis for the homeless. The goal is to get 15,000.
Since the beginning of an international pandemic, experts have known one population is particularly vulnerable to contracting and spreading the coronavirus: the homeless.
The Sacramento Homeless Union says there are approximately 11,000 unsheltered individuals across Sacramento who are having a difficult time following the CDC guidelines.
In an effort to help protect the homeless population in California from the coronavirus, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order for Wednesday and authorized $150 million to help house the homeless.
Authorities want people to stay in their homes to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but what will the homeless do?
California should lower the legal bar for providing forced treatment to the mentally ill and building more homeless shelters, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday in his second State of the State address.
California's governor is expected to call for better mental health care to help the state's huge homeless population when he addresses one of the state's most pressing problems in his second State of the State speech.
The Sacramento City Council approved plans for a sleeping cabin community in North Sacramento next to St. Paul's Church on Grove Avenue.
Police say they have cleaned up more than a dozen homeless camps that had popped up along freeways in Rocklin.
A Stockton man was driving to work when he says a woman intentionally walked in front of his car on the highway.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget proposal likely won't have a meaningful impact on the nation's largest homeless population, according to a new analysis from the state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
The mayor of Tracy says the solution to his city's homeless problem, is to bus the homeless to Stockton.
A group of homeless people is suing the city of Sacramento in federal court over a porta-potty.
Sacramento city leaders have proposed installing a "Portland Loo" in Cesar Chavez park to help combat the human waste problem downtown.
It was once home to a highly-contested homeless camp in Sacramento until police raided it, forcing everyone out. Now, the site is being proposed to house the homeless once again.
California is asking the Trump administration to provide surplus federal land that could be used to build housing for the homeless, mirroring a new state program.
Roseville police say a homeless man slashed a McDonald's employee with a butter knife.
