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Mayor Todd Gloria announced Friday that a large-scale shelter operation is being extended at the San Diego Convention Center to protect hundreds of homeless San Diegans as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens.

At Steele Canyon High School in Spring Valley, an evacuation point set up in the gymnasium gave Valley Fire evacuees a place to eat, visit nurses, use the bathrooms and keep cool, but complications presented by the coronavirus pandemic forced them to rest their heads outside or elsewhere. “The temporary evacuation point is not a shelter, it is a rest…

If evacuees can’t camp in the parking lot of evacuation sites, the Red Cross will find them shelter in hotels. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea explains.

A recently renovated building that was formerly a motel began to welcome homeless families and individuals to offer them temporary housing.

Shelter pets may be a great companion as a foster or adoption as you are staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. “Stay Home and Foster” is working to help people connect with shelters and foster animals while maintaining proper social distancing.

A dog believed to be stolen from her backyard two years ago has been reunited with her family in Arlington.

At least two cats have been sealed into buckets and abandoned near a Manhattan animal shelter — both of which might have been taken away with the trash if staff hadn’t noticed them.

For 53-year-old Harry Brown, a homeless veteran with terminal pancreatic cancer, life has dealt some difficult blows. But a trip to Long Beach to say goodbye to family and friends proved especially devastating when his beloved service dog, Olivia, wandered away while he napped in a park ten days ago.

Wednesday’s got something for everyone: Steve Poltz, Shelter, Men I Trust, Janelle Monae and more are in town.

A suburban Chicago resident who was offering up “slumber parties” in his basement for homeless people in his neighborhood during dangerously cold weather says the city has given him an ultimatum.

The new shelter will be twice the size of the current one.

NBC 7’s Gaby Rodriguez reports on the new shelter planned for North Marshall Avenue that will be more than twice the size of the current El Cajon shelter.

The Los Angeles City Council reaffirmed its commitment to reaching a 90 percent save rate at animal shelters.

David Loop is used to finding hope for animals that few other people would give a chance, but even he thought it was the end of the road for the little white dog he found in the middle of the street in Mira Loma a couple weeks ago.

Hundreds of homeless people could have a place to stay year-round if a new, permanent shelter gets approval.