The case exposed a deep divide between the rights of the homeless and residents frustrated by encampments in public spaces, turning this town of about 40,000 into an unlikely focal point in a national ...

It’s been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Grants Pass v. Johnson, which determined that cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping outside, even if they have nowhere ...

In the wake of the Grants Pass v. Johnson decision, California cities are ramping up homeless encampment sweeps, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s ruling that ...

Before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last summer in a case out of Grants Pass, Oregon, Alfred’s win might not have been a big deal. Back then, legal precedent said it was “cruel and unusual” to punish ...

Without secure shelter, unhoused young people face heightened risks of violence, mental health challenges, and long-term ...

Carson City supervisors will consider the first reading of a new ordinance designed to strengthen and specify existing ...

Roberts’s order doesn’t resolve the dispute but gives the Supreme Court time to consider the administration’s claim that a lower court overstepped its authority when it ordered the ...

This article was updated on Feb. 25 at 1:57 p.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for his role in the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van ...