Spokane Valley lawmakers are exploring several revisions to the city’s ban on people camping out on public property, including some new restrictions.

An affluent Seattle-area community has approved an ordinance prohibiting camping on public property, a measure the city says will connect homeless people to shelters but that might prove hard to enforce because of a federal court ruling.

People experiencing homelessness will not be left out in the bitter cold this week, the city of Spokane pledged on Tuesday.

Union Gospel Mission has temporarily closed its men’s emergency shelter to new intakes due to a COVID-19 outbreak.

An administrative review of 100 complaints brought against the operators of a homeless shelter is continuing and should wrap up soon, city officials said. But the owners believe the investigation has sullied their reputation in town and hurt their ability to compete for new contracts to serve the homeless in the region. 

On Aug. 14, Seattle police cleared Cal Anderson Park of a homeless encampment and protesters who were occupying a parks building and distributing food to homeless people there.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced city leaders to reinvent the Spokane region’s annual count of its unsheltered population.

LAS VEGAS – The swanky, billion-dollar casinos of Las Vegas are bedecked with shining towers, neon signs and eye-popping extravagance. But directly beneath the glitter, hundreds of homeless people live out of sight, in the dark, in a network of stormwater tunnels running below the city.

After three years on the streets, Tiecha Vannoy and her boyfriend Chris Foss plan to weather the pandemic this winter in a small white “pod” with electricity, heat and enough room for two.

A handful of medical students recently delivered on a gift of service for Union Gospel Mission's free medical clinic. Each Saturday since Oct. 17, UGM patients get the attention of first- and second-year students from the University of Washington School of Medicine-Gonzaga University Regional Health Partnership.

A removal of a Cal Anderson Park homeless encampment and park maintenance planned for early Wednesday was postponed after protesters set up a barricade in and around the park.

As new details emerge in the downtown stabbing death of Anthony Vornheder last month, his sister said she believes the killing may have been a case of mistaken identity.

Seventeen people have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Open Doors Homeless Shelter in east Spokane, essentially turning the facility into a quarantine site and forcing the remaining residents to other sites.

Angelique Vornheder once found a video of her brother posted in a Facebook group called “Tweakers of Spokane.” He was rapping and singing to himself, as he often did.

Angelique Vornheder once found a video of her brother posted in a Facebook group called “Tweakers of Spokane.” He was rapping and singing to himself, as he often did.