SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The mayor of California's state capital unveiled plans on Thursday to shut down a sprawling "tent city" of the homeless that has drawn worldwide media attention as a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.