Changes authorized by Lurie's ordinance allowed addiction treatment and shelters to open much more quickly, cutting many ...

Life is full of its ups and downs, its challenges and its celebrations. Many clients at Champaign’s CU at Home know that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Studies show that Oregon is among the nation’s worst in access to treatment, which exacerbates the challenges that come with homelessness At first glance, Christine Greene would appear to be living a ...

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

California has about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about 45 percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population ...

A Chico man was sentenced after pleading guilty to felony drug sales charges related to large-scale drug dealing at a ...

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 ...