When I was a young man working as a U.S. Forest Service seasonal employee part of the job was wildland fire fighting ... with the single-man fire shelters that have saved many lives when fire ...

Governor Maura Healey’s administration should revamp several of its current policies to improve safety within the state’s emergency shelter system, including ensuring shelter providers are on ...

A shelter-in-place order was lifted for students, faculty and staff at the University of Virginia on Tuesday after a man was accused of fleeing a traffic stop and hitting at least two vehicles ...

Thousands of US shelter operators and homelessness providers are awaiting word about some $3.6 billion in pending federal grants, stoking fear that the money won’t arrive amid cuts at the US ...

Tina Kotek are pushing for more state oversight and coordination for homeless shelters. Kotek’s office and Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, have spent months working on plans for a statewide homeless ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) A shuttered door at a homeless shelter in Anaheim, on May 14 ...

Emergency shelters are supposed to be safe havens. But a CalMatters investigation finds they are deadlier than jails — and the vast majority of residents remain homeless. The records catalog the chaos ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan hotel-turned-shelter is set to close after becoming an emblem of New York City's fraught effort to manage an influx of international migrants. Mayor Eric Adams said this ...

The notorious migrant shelter and arrival center at Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel will close in a couple of months, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday — as data showed the number of asylum seekers ...

The closure is the latest under the mayor's plan to shutter 53 migrant shelters by June. A milestone in the asylum seeker crisis, Adams says The Roosevelt Hotel has served as an arrival center for ...

Since then, the impact on the nation’s wildland firefighting force remains unclear. A USDA spokesperson told Wildfire Today that the agency had laid off 2,000 probationary employees from the ...