Over the past few days, it’s been impossible to avoid seeing the telltale signs of wildfire ash and debris accumulating along the coastline of Santa Monica. At low tide in particular, endless thick ...

While county officials haven’t been able to agree on where to set up a cold weather shelter for the past two years, many cities are now putting people up in motel rooms for the night.

Expand Oceanside’s new homeless shelter, buy more land for affordable housing, and improve contacts with people in need were ...

What ‘walking the walk’ looks like for two veterans bringing military experience to a different kind of rescue mission ...

A man suspected in a series of fires in Santa Monica was arrested after police used drone technology as part of the investigation.

The Santa Monica Police Department is asking for help solving the suspicious death of a woman discovered on the Santa Monica ...

Police are investigating the death of a woman experiencing homelessness as a possible homicide after her injured body was discovered close to the ocean on Santa Monica Beach, authorities said. Beach ...

Lisha Banks, 59, has been staying in a tent behind Offentsive, a homeless and addiction outreach group, since Escambia County shut down the Beggs Lane camp last December. It was in response to a ...

That was less than one third of the approximately 300 volunteers who in recent years combed every street in Santa Monica -- a total of 226 linear miles -- to tally homeless individuals sleeping ...

As the flames of California history’s most damaging winter began to cool, decision times were about to arrive for tens of thousands of the state’s newest homeless. Email Thomas Elias at ...