NEW ORLEANS — The lease for a temporary shelter for the unhoused in Gentilly is set to expire Tuesday, leaving state officials weighing whether to extend operations for another 30 days.

San José Mayor Matt Mahan unveiled an initiative Thursday that would ratchet up the pressure on homeless people to accept shelter or face jail time. “Homelessness can’t be a choice,” Mahan ...

Shelter, Support and Housing Administration has been renamed Toronto Shelter & Support Services (TSSS) to better reflect the Division’s role as the shelter service system manager in Toronto. The ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus ... replaced H. habilis in the region, somewhere between ...

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has already spent more than half a billion dollars this fiscal year on taxpayer-funded shelters housing migrants and local families, according to public data ...

In a storage shed on the outskirts of Victoria, Lisa* keeps all her belongings — decades-old letters, diaries, photo albums and furniture. As the years go by, she worries if there will be a time ...

Hamilton's outdoor shelter now has 19 residents and the plan is for it to be full by the end of the month, operators and city officials say. The temporary shelter on Barton St. W. — ...

Chandaria, who brought him home from an ASPCA shelter in Boston in 2019, said staff told her he also "didn't like to be picked up," but the reality couldn't have been further from the truth.

A new temporary homeless shelter for men has opened in a historic church in Halifax's north end. A news release from the Nova Scotia government Friday said the 25-bed shelter on Brunswick Street ...

Massachusetts lawmakers struck a deal Tuesday to pump $425 million into the state’s emergency shelter system while dramatically tightening the number of homeless and migrant families the state ...

A massive 2,200 male-only migrant shelter has opened in the Bronx despite residents venting their opposition to the move and as the city announces the closures of other migrant shelters throughout ...