Thursday, April 10, 2025

  Apr 02, 2025

Vallejo crafts ‘humane’ plan to resume encampment sweeps

The Vallejo City Council voted 5-2 to resume removing encampments within two weeks....

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  Mar 19, 2025

Vallejo halts encampment sweeps while crafting new homelessness strategy

The Vallejo City Council placed a freeze on all encampment sweeps for two weeks....

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  Feb 26, 2025

Homeless man crushed to death during Vallejo encampment clean-up was star athlete with troubled past

James Oakley was a high school star but later struggled with drug addiction and served time in prison for manslaughter....

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  Feb 10, 2025

Federal judge blocks Vallejo from destroying woman’s tent shelter

Evelyn Alfred, known to friends as Brown Sugar, has for months been fighting the city’s efforts to remove her from a vacant lot alongside Mare Island Way....

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  Feb 07, 2025

Homeless residents decry Vallejo encampment sweeps during storms

Several unhoused people said their vehicles were towed and belongings removed while the Bay Area experienced several major rainstorms....

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  Jan 01, 2025

Year in review: Fresh faces will lead Vallejo in 2025

The new leadership still faces difficult issues that the city has grappled with for years....

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  Dec 03, 2024

Judge orders city of Vallejo not to evict disabled homeless woman

For the past year and a half, Evelyn Davis Alfred has lived on a vacant lot alongside Mare Island Way near Tennessee Street....

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  Nov 19, 2024

State, local agencies remove long running Vallejo homeless encampment

Caltrans said that the encampment is one of the largest that the agency has removed in the Bay Area....

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  Oct 25, 2024

Vallejo clears Mare Island encampment after judge denies restraining order

City officials and police cleared the encampment on Wednedsay....

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  Sep 04, 2024

Vallejo Homeless Union members file federal lawsuit to stop encampment eviction

They allege that Vallejo and Caltrans improperly confiscate possessions and vehicles used for shelter....

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  Aug 16, 2024

Number of homeless in Solano County increased by nearly 50% since 2022, new data shows

While the number of people who were homeless increased dramatically, the number of those who had shelter barely increased at all....

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  Jul 29, 2024

Emboldened by governor’s order, Vallejo police tow vehicles and trailers used by homeless

One officer mentioned an order by Gov. Gavin Newsom when telling residents that their vehicles would be towed....

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