The Tempe City Council has passed an ordinance that would require events with 30 or more people to have a permit and pay a ...

Tuesday night, the Tempe City Council voted unanimously to adopt a new ordinance tightening the rules on lawful gatherings in ...

New Tempe event permitting rules were approved unanimously despite objections from advocates for people experiencing ...

Opponents of Tempe's proposed changes for permits point to the city's crackdown on volunteers who feed homeless people in the ...

Austin Davis with AZ Hugs and Jane Parker with the organization HOPE say that the ordinance denies services to the needy and is inhumane. The city of Tempe responded by saying they look forward to ...

Austin Davis, the founder of AZ Hugs who was cited 34 times from December 2023 through May 2024 for feeding homeless people in city parks without a special-event permit, has filed suit in U.S.

The director of AZ Hugs, a Valley non-profit that feeds the unhoused and provides other social services, filed a joint lawsuit against Tempe over an ordinance he claims targets marginalized groups.

Just off campus, Tempe nonprofit AZ Hugs started hosting weekly picnics for the city's homeless population half a decade ago. "It's three to five courses of food spread out through the afternoon so ...

Austin Davis, 24, has been banned from every public park in Tempe after he and the city continue to face off in court over public meal services his group provides to unhoused people.

Is this political revenge or punishment? And how would you explain arresting young Austin Davis in the dark hours of the morning alone, as he exited his home? Outreach at Moeur Park is perfectly safe ...