TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- With the Safe Harbor shelter closing for the season, those who stayed there are having to find a new place to sleep. For many, that means moving to places like The ...

A day after a late winter storm slammed the city with record snow and cold temperatures this week, Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez defended his controversial proposal to temporarily bar Portland ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - On Wednesday, Multnomah County Commissioner Rene Gonzalez, who is running for mayor, announced that Multnomah County had decided to stop purchasing tents and tarps for the ...

With little fanfare, Multnomah County has adopted a new policy that lays out rules for how it will distribute tents and tarps to people living outside. “Tents and tarps are life-saving supplies, ...

WATERLOO | Pete Downs feels like he’s running a startup, even though his company, Waterloo Tent & Tarp Inc., has been doing business since 1884. He basically had to rebuild the company on a sharper, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A long line of tents covered the sidewalk on Northwest Davis Street in Portland’s Old Town. One homeless man who just moved to Portland from Arkansas was there setting up a bright ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Leaders from Multnomah County, the city of Portland and the city of Gresham met with community leaders to discuss the distribution of tents and tarps to homeless people, part of the ...

(AP) — Ask any of the hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims living outdoors in Haiti's shattered capital and you're apt to get the same plea: "Give us a tent." Few will get one. Aid agencies and ...

Without a floor or even its own support poles, can a tarp do as well as a tent in high winds, heavy snow and pouring rain? We think one can actually do better, at least if its this Hyperlite Mountain ...

A USA Today headline and story about the devastation in Haiti from a massive earthquake launched Jessica Hardy of Asheville into action. Hardy recently graduated from nursing school at ...