SAN FRANCISCO — The first black female mayor of San Francisco made history Wednesday as she took the oath of office, vowing to help drug users...
As a young psychologist in the 1980s who had researched treatment of the mentally ill, I was concerned by many reports suggesting that the growing number...
One-quarter of homeless people in the U.S. live in California, despite Californians making up only 12 percent of the population. Not only is homelessness more common...
Why does a place as big and beautiful as Orange County behave in ways so small and ugly? In recent weeks, county supervisors first voted to...
Can tiny houses help reduce homelessness in Fresno? The Fresno Rescue Mission believes so. While the effectiveness of the city of Fresno’s “no camping” ordinance, complete...
Mayor Lee Brand delivered the keynote speech to the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation’s monthly breakfast Wednesday (Jan. 31). He touted his first-year accomplishments (Rental Housing Improvement...
A deadly outbreak of hepatitis A in California has prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency to better respond to the disease. So...
Opinion by Bill McEwen Like a lot of people around the country, many Fresnans are fed up with the impacts of homelessness. They are tired...