Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to bring up an updated version of a camping ban ordinance at a city council meeting on Wednesday.
In a Supreme Court showdown over whether the homeless have a “right” to camp in public, almost no one mentioned the actual ...
Justices heard an Oregon city's appeal of lower court rulings that it's "cruel and unusual" to fine or jail people on public ...
The 10 a.m. press conference will include Wheeler, city attorney Robert Taylor and Skyler Brocker-Knapp, the mayor's senior ...
Last month, Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning homeless people from camping on city streets, sidewalks and ...
The Supreme Court has wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness as it considers whether cities ...
During a Thursday special meeting, Assembly members also voted down Mayor Dave Bronson’s push to revive a mass homeless shelter in East Anchorage.
Commissioner Rene Gonzalez has walked back the higher penalties for homeless people included in his counter to Mayor Ted ...
Gonzalez’s alternative proposal sought to put all rule-making power over the camping ban in the hands of the mayor and their ...
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KOIN 6 Meteorologist Josh Cozart shares Portland's warming trend as winds increase Thursday and Friday. Congressman Earl ...
Gonzalez, a current city commissioner, is floating a measure that would immediately ban homeless camping citywide, should the ...