Oakland Homeless Must Leave City-Sanctioned Camp After Fire
An East Bay experiment with an a city-sanctioned homeless camp went up in flames Monday evening.
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An East Bay experiment with an a city-sanctioned homeless camp went up in flames Monday evening.
Since Public Works can't clean out the encampments this weekend, volunteers plan to use their own pickup trucks to haul the trash away.
Mayor Libby Schaaf wants to be the first two-term mayor of Oakland since Jerry Brown. On Tuesday, KPIX 5 talked to her about the results of an exclusive Survey USA poll on what worries voters the most.
A fast-moving fire roared through one of Oakland's makeshift homeless encampments underneath the 880 freeway early Thursday, sending residents scrambling for safety.
A former New York Times journalist who dropped out of the main stream and spent years on the streets of Berkeley as the famed 'Hateman' has died. He was either 81 or 82.
Advocates are calling for a moratorium on homeless sweeps in the wake of the recent flood that struck San Jose.
It's as if somebody tried to bring a small part of normal back to their lives, by creating the illusion of a home.
There's an encampment in West Oakland that's grown so large, it's spilling onto the street.
The San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick stepped up to help people living in Bay Area shelters by donating his massive sneaker collection.
A Santa Rosa artist has gone above and beyond when it comes to helping the homeless, designing and helping to build a group of miniature shelters for those in need.
Authorities Friday rescued two women and a litter of puppies who were trapped in the middle of the San Gabriel River during a pre-winter storm that drenched the state.
As Bay Area charities gear up for the Holidays, volunteers are working overtime to prepare food and gifts for the needy, and one volunteer isn't letting her age be an excuse for not helping out.
A missing 13-year-old Petaluma boy was found safe in Sebastopol and is home with his family who were searching for him, Petaluma police said.
Multimillion-dollar homes butted up against homeless encampments in Mountain View may be the solution to providing shelter to the homeless.
Saturday morning dozens of kids gathered to play the part of Santa's elfs. They picked out and wrapped gifts for homeless children in San Francisco. Santafest is an annual fundraiser for Children of Shelters, a non-profit working to break the cycle of homelessness for kids in the city by providing enrichment and educational opportunities.
A Santa Rosa artist has gone above and beyond when it comes to helping the homeless, designing and helping to build a group of miniature shelters for those in need.
A third suspect has been arrested in the fatal beating of a disabled homeless man in a downtown San Francisco alley in 2014.
A pair of new measures could force San Francisco shoppers to spend more money.
Two men arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a disabled homeless man in San Francisco's Financial District pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and other felony charges.
Two 21-year-old suspects have been arrested in the vicious, 2014 beating death of a disabled 67-year-old homeless man in San Francisco that was caught on video.
The murder conviction of a homeless man who fatally stabbed a fellow transient in downtown Santa Rosa in 2013 has been overturned.
Hundreds of the homeless turned out for a free health fair in San Jose on Friday.
Oakland is trying a different approach by turning a tent camp into a homeless shelter.
Demonstrators pitched tents outside San Francisco City Hall in an effort to push city leaders to take further action on homelessness.
Berkeley officials are evaluating how to respond to a small tent city on Adeline Street near a Berkeley Bowl grocery store.
