The RAND report says the overall decrease in unsheltered homelessness appears linked to two high-profile city policies: ...

The nonprofit Sunstone Way has been running the Multnomah Safe Rest Village for three years. Now the city of Portland has replaced them with Urban Alchemy.

The last of Pittsburgh's large homeless encampments has been cleared. After decommissioning encampments on the North Shore ...

Sienna, a 4-year-old labradoodle-pit bull mix with no special training, is being praised for helping alert others to a man's ...

A routine pet adoption event at a Virginia church took an extraordinary turn when one of the foster dogs instinctively ...

“He’s been adopted twice … and returned twice,” the shelter wrote. “The first time, animal control brought him back after ...

Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from ...

The National Weather Service issued a weather alert at 12:38 p.m. on Saturday for strong thunderstorms until 1:45 p.m. for Marion, Lamar and Fayette counties.

A rescue dog sensed a man at a shelter event was in need of help. The Friends of Campbell County Animal Control wrote on Facebook how Sienna befriended the man and refused to leave his side.

"Sienna knew," the shelter said. "Before any human saw the signs, she knew." The dog hadn't been trained to detect seizures, but the shelter said they always knew she was extraordinary.

Kyle Casey stood outside Salem’s Union Gospel Mission shelter, waiting to check in and get a bed for the night on Sunday. As he waited, a man rushed out the front entry, bleeding. Behind him ...

The renderings could be used to go to donors and show them what the shelter plans to do, both saving money on the planning and renderings and using them to raise funds. But that’s not happening for a ...