Proponents say it is necessary, but some people don't think it will help address the root causes of the crisis.

It’s getting harder for unhoused people in Tacoma to find a place to spend the night. Last week, the city council there voted narrowly, 5-to-4, to expand buffer zones where encampments are not allowed ...

A homeless camp has re-established near the I-705 overpass in Tacoma, which city workers cleared just weeks ago.

Since implementing the original public camping prohibition, Ordinance 28831, the city was able to remove 776 encampments in ...

The city has had a prohibition on public camping since 2022. The proposal before the council Tuesday would extend the ban to more areas.

The Tacoma City Council will consider an amendment to the city’s public-camping ban that will expand the areas in which people living unhoused are prohibited from camping. In October 2022, the Tacoma ...

Tacoma has passed establishing new "buffer zones" where camping is prohibited around public parks, schools, libraries and ...

A 26-year-old man who was fatally shot last week at a homeless encampment near Interstate 5 in South Tacoma was identified Monday by the medical examiner. Jefferson Matthews died Feb. 28 of a gunshot ...

Brandon Lee Archuleta, 39, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the February 2023 shooting near Interstate 5.

KIRO host Jake Skorheim agreed there shouldn't be people doing drugs in parks, but wasn't buying the idea of a sanctioned ...