Back-to-back homeless encampment fires threaten South Land Park homes
Neighbors in South Land Park say they are feeling the heat. They're not talking about the rising temperatures but back-to-back fires near their Oregon Drive and Gilgunn Way homes.
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Neighbors in South Land Park say they are feeling the heat. They're not talking about the rising temperatures but back-to-back fires near their Oregon Drive and Gilgunn Way homes.
The goal is to help transform participants' lives and help change the perceptions of homelessness. Organizers estimate there are about 100 million homeless people worldwide. Their mission is to help end the crisis.
The Sacramento State football stadium is being transformed for a different kind of football – street soccer.
The Sacramento State football stadium is being transformed for a different kind of football – street soccer.
Assemblymember Robert Rivas has been sworn in as the next speaker of California's state Assembly.
Sacramento's District Attorney is fed up with dangerous downtown homeless encampments and is demanding the city take action immediately. So what can be done? We're getting answers.
The City of Sacramento is spending millions of dollars each year to address homelessness, but community members say the problem is only getting worse.
Critics are calling the City of Sacramento's brand new online homeless enforcement tool "a dud" on day one.
A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless.
A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless.
It's a drastic step by a business owner surrounded by crime and blight. He's asking the City of Sacramento to turn over the public street where his business is located so he can clean it up himself — and the city is telling him, "It's all yours."
There are an estimated 10,000 homeless people in Sacramento County. No neighborhood is immune from its impacts, but now, one of the most high-profile spots in the capital city may no longer have problems with people setting up camp.
California has the worst homeless crisis in the nation. Ending it starts with one thing, according to Yolo County's district attorney: ending its drug crisis.
A midtown Sacramento couple said they fear for their safety even inside their home after a series of threats from a homeless man who has been sleeping outside their window.
Five major U.S. cities and the state of California will receive federal help to get unsheltered residents into permanent housing.
Businesses along Lathrop Way in Sacramento have been calling on the city to clear homeless campers for years, and now one local business owner is taking matters into their own hands.
A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency shows the ways children are especially vulnerable to climate change — and those effects could last a lifetime, experts say.
Below the streets of Sacramento is a world many people have no idea exists. They are called "hollow sidewalks."
A fire Wednesday afternoon at a homeless encampment in downtown is now out. However the location of the fire has crews concerned. It happened inside a series of tunnels underneath K St. in downtown Sacramento.
A homeless camp under a tailing dam in Amador County went up in flames last week, firefighters say.
Hundreds of elected officials from across the state joined forces at the Capitol yesterday to demand more money to combat the homeless crisis.
There are more students who are experiencing homelessness now than there were in 2020. New state numbers show 16,000 more youth don't have a permanent address — the total statewide homeless student population is more than 187,000.
Saturday, April 1 was a day of celebration for Camp Resolution, an unhoused community that has been set up at a fenced in, city-owned parking lot at Colfax and Arden Way for more than a year.
The City of Sacramento said it will let Camp Resolution, a homeless encampment, stay on some public land, agreeing to provide trailers and other services for up to four months.
Just last fall, the city was days away from raiding the unauthorized homeless encampment.
