Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging California’s local governments to begin clearing homeless encampments, escalating the state’s efforts to ban the growing number of makeshift camps on sidewalks and in parks that are the most visible signs of the crisis of people living on the streets.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a wide-reaching plan to tackle the state's severe homelessness crisis that would direct hundreds of cities, towns and counties to effectively ban tent camping on sidewalks and parks,

Gavin Newsom is urging local governments across California to effectively ban public camping and move faster to close dangerous encampments. On Monday, Newsom released a template ordinance that cities and counties can adopt to prohibit and clear camps.

A man has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Zoo trying to stop the relocation of two Asian elephants to a zoo in Oklahoma.