The Austin Fire Department described "multiple explosions" and 15-foot high flames sparked by "encampment activity" on Dec.

Angela Merrell stands near a camp in Fountain Square on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. The Indianapolis encampment received a lot of attention before being cleared through a new city program. Indiana ...

State lawmakers want to financially punish political subdivisions that don’t take care of complaints from citizens, business ...

Letting homeless camps fester is toxic to city neighborhoods and unsafe for the “campers,” so let’s all cheer Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to back off his ban on “encampment sweeps.” And more power ...

Citizen uproar over county officials' decision to clear out a homeless camp in the winter cold and evict residents a few weeks before Christmas has prompted a seven-day delay. Debate during the Dec. 4 ...

In San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie has deployed cops, “street ambassadors” and outreach workers to push homeless people ...

They could be playing with fire. Three of LA’s lefty councilmembers on Tuesday tried to torch efforts to clear homeless ...

Several small fires were reported Tuesday night in the “tent city” area on Union Pacific property following efforts to clear ...

To Mayor Fitzpatrick and the Astoria City Council: We understand that you are considering opening a homeless camp in Astoria. There is no good place for a homeless camp in this town. You have the ...

San Francisco swept homeless camps downtown when the Bay Area last hosted the Super Bowl in 2016. Before last year’s big game in New Orleans, authorities relocated homeless people away from the ...