Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.

FREMONT, Calif. — Dominating one corner of a sprawling homeless encampment on an abandoned lot next to Fremont’s rumbling BART tracks, Michael Austin has built his own kind of palace. His makeshift ...

Elgin police officers and social service staff walked through the eight-acre homeless encampment along the Fox River this week, letting the people who live there know about the city’s plans to ...

“The Zone” is no more and is unlikely to return. On Tuesday, the Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed a permanent injunction to the squalid homeless camp that had been enabled by Phoenix. Officials ...

Nearly 70 tents have sprouted on a gravel parking lot in South Harrisburg that’s become a next-generation community for the city’s unhoused, many of them women. The combination of 24-hour video ...