Bend United Methodist Church’s volunteer-run mail program offers a crucial service for those who lack a fixed address “You can give homeless people food and things,” said Cindy Pierce. “That […] ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is shelving a major overhaul to a key federal homeless services program ...

A PSU report compiling 2025 Point-in-Time count data in Oregon noted over 27,000 people experiencing homelessness, both ...

Governor Tina Kotek extended Oregon’s state of emergency on unsheltered homelessness, sharpening the focus on mental health ...

Portland State University on Thursday released the statewide homelessness numbers from the January 2025 biannual single-night census, data that would normally be released by the federal government as ...

Local elected leaders are reconsidering the deadline to close a government-sanctioned homeless camp north of Bend, fearing the consequences of displacing about 200 people with no place else to go. At ...

The chief petitioners behind the push to repeal a 2021 Oregon law on homelessness submitted 1,770 sponsor signatures to the state on Nov. 26, advancing the initiative closer to being able to circulate ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Fire crews in Deschutes County battled an RV camper fire at a homeless camping-designated area north of Bend on Sunday morning. Bend Fire & Rescue say the RV fire happened just ...