You can see it on morning walks in Bend’s parks. You can see it in the forests around Bend. People are sleeping on the ground, in vehicles, even in portable toilets. It’s not as easy to see an ...

Direct cash assistance from the state is helping homeless Oregon youth find housing, according to the results of a pilot program that concluded last year. In February 2023, the Youth Experiencing ...

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 ...

Homelessness could be on the decline nationally for the first time in eight years, according to data from local homelessness counts gathered by The New York Times and reviewed by an outside expert. If ...

The Trump administration will require that homeless service providers force people to receive behavioral health treatment in order to access long-term, federally supported housing, a move that could ...

Approaching his first anniversary in office, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, who ran most prominently on grappling seriously with the city’s homelessness troubles, just made a major course shift. It may, ...

FDA advised consumers not to eat certain oysters and manila clams from Drayton Harbor, Wash. Oregon gas prices highest since Sept. 2025 as oil surges on Hormuz disruptions Crude oil prices surged ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is joining a lawsuit challenging a federal housing policy change that he claims will “force more people into homelessness.” Rayfield, and a ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Homeless Leadership Coalition, Central Oregon’s Continuum of Care, will be kicking off the annual Point in Time Count in Central Oregon on Tuesday. The count is part of a ...

A pedestrian walks past a tent encampment in Portland, Ore., on Jan. 24, 2024. President Trump has promised to sweep homeless Americans out of cities in part by forcing many into "long-term ...