It’s last call for San Francisco’s government hooch. A COVID-era program that guzzled $5 million of taxpayer money annually ...

Two men allegedly recruited people struggling with homelessness to carry out a fraud scheme.

My life changed 20 years ago, when my friend and I were floating down the Rogue River in Oregon. Suddenly the motor fell off the boat, which tipped over. I slipped into the icy water. Some young ...

The debate over how to deal with homelessness, drug addiction and mental health issues has intensified in recent months — with a renewed focus on a controversial strategy of forcing people into ...

This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 California Health Equity Fellowship. A tough-on-crime measure California voters overwhelmingly approved ...

A Common Sense Institute report released last week affirms how soft-on-crime and easy-on-drugs policies make homelessness worse in wealthy, high-government-spending states like Colorado. To control ...

Today we've been reporting on the Trump administration's executive order around homelessness. That order also calls for the elimination of federal funding for drug addiction programs that offer what's ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In a three-peat move, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has prolonged the state’s emergency homelessness order. On Friday, Gov. Kotek’s office unveiled Executive Order No. 26-01 — an ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

A pedestrian walks past a tent encampment in Portland, Ore., on Jan. 24, 2024. President Trump has promised to sweep homeless Americans out of cities in part by forcing many into "long-term ...

Milwaukee Rescue Mission's plan to build a men's residential addiction recovery center in New Berlin will be discussed in a public meeting.

A tough-on-crime measure California voters overwhelmingly approved last year promised to usher in an “era of mass treatment” for the tens of thousands of homeless drug users across the state. But so ...