The immediate response tends to be an overreaction. There are much deeper structural inequities in the Tenderloin that continue to put neighborhood residents collectively at risk. Police officers appeared to crack down on the block the day after, with three people reporting police arrived around 7 a.m. to urge people gathered there to move along.
Isaac Tumuramye has called the Willowdale Welcome Centre home since he came to Toronto from Uganda two years ago. But the shelter, which serves refugees experiencing homelessness in Toronto, is closing at the end of May. Tumuramye says he's scared about what the future holds and others staying at the shelter feel the same. "We're not ready yet, we're still trying to make life happen," he said.
As Bay Area News Group reports, the San Jose Unified School District created a Schools of Tomorrow committee last fall consisting of parents, district staff, school employees, and educators to come up with a plan to address the loss of almost 6,000 enrolled elementary school students since 2017. As KTVU reports, the committee will be considering school sizes, programming, and staffing when weighing its decision, which could include the closure of up to nine schools, consolidations, or boundary changes.
We came to light a candle, said Sisi Boisard, a regular visitor to Crans-Montana from France for the last 20 years. We have five children and can't begin to imagine what these families are going through. This is a tragedy that has cut profoundly, but not just here it's being felt across the world. She and her husband, Arlindo, were celebrating the new year with their daughter, who lives in a nearby town, when they heard about the fire.
2025 was a tumultuous year that tested our resolve from federal funding cuts to local road safety and climate resilience projects, a lengthy government shutdown that caused federal workers to miss paychecks and suspended nutrition assistance programs and the loss of subsidies for health insurance premiums for those who buy their insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft is the mayor of Alameda.
OAKLAND - An Oakland elementary school canceled classes and officials locked down the campus Wednesday after an unmarked van with a Department of Homeland Security license plate was sighted in the area.
A mass shooting in Newark left two people killed, including an 10-year-old boy, and three others injured Saturday night, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. The office said Newark Police were called to the scene at the 300 block of Chancellor Ave. around 7:00 p.m. Saturday. A 21-year-old woman was also killed in the shooting. The woman and the boy were pronounced dead at University Hospital.
On Wednesday, executives from a group called the Esmeralda Land Company will present their plans to officials in Cloverdale, a small city of roughly 9,000 residents in northern Sonoma County. The project, titled Esmeralda, is led by Devon Zuegel, a tech worker who hopes to build a hotel, new housing, and a park on a 266-acre piece of land in the southern end of the city.
We want them to feel safe, we want them to come back to their normal routine. So we're calling off the physical search. I'll go out with my drone once a day or so, and then see what we can find. But unfortunately, it's going to be a little bit of a ti
A Louth nurese and county councillor has praised the courage of residents and the compassion shown by Drogheda locals in the aftermath of the deliberate arson attack that tore through an International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) centre in the town on Halloween night.
A gentle and peaceful dog walker who was just trying to help has died and two people have been injured in a triple stabbing in west London. A 22-year-old Afghan national has been arrested on suspicion of murder as neighbours paid tribute to the victim, who they said was just doing the normal dog walk that he does every day.
Mitchell did not attend the meeting. "I do not blame the chief for leaving, because he's been run out and obstructed by these activists who are off and on the dais," said District 4 resident Rajni Mandal during the public comment portion of the meeting. She blamed the commission, the Coalition for Police Accountability, and the Anti Police-Terror Project for "plunging the city into chaos."
The rural Nova Scotia community is part of Pictou County, an area of dense forests and meandering rivers, where memories of recent tragedies in the province-a horrific mass killing in 2020 and a missing toddler that same year-remain vivid. Over four months after the siblings' disappearance, a sense of unease permeates the region, even as residents rally at vigils and in community Facebook groups to try to keep hope alive.
A woman is assisting police after a baby boy was found dead inside a storm water drain. Two workers carrying out routine maintenance made the confronting discovery in Alexander Heights in Perth's northern suburbs on Monday afternoon. Western Australia police confirmed a woman in her 30s is assisting with their investigation into the newborn's death. The woman is receiving appropriate care and support, police said in a statement on Wednesday evening.
Emergency repairs at an L.A. Department of Water and Power pump station left approximately 9,200 households in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch without water. A valve failure during repairs halted water flow from a 10-million-gallon tank to local pipes.
Newman, 51, of Natick is charged with enticement of a child under 16 and attempting to commit a crime, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office said in a statement.
"The youth of Sebastia have learned to hide in their homes whenever Israeli soldiers approach the town. They try to get back before invading soldiers reach their street, knowing all too well the potentially grave consequences if they don't."
Cyclists and their loved ones are pledging to sue the city if they are killed or injured on the stretch of Bedford Avenue where Mayor Adams is preparing to rip up three blocks of protected bike lanes.
Local residents in Dublin 15 express a variety of reactions to the increasing use of drones, balancing the excitement of modern technology with concerns about noise and privacy.
