A facility hailed as an alternative to jail and hospital stays for intoxicated people — the vast majority of whom were homeless — has shuttered its doors as city officials cut costs to claw out of a ...

Melbourne's two-year-old sobering-up centre is barely being used, figures obtained exclusively by 9News reveal. The Victorian government opened a 20-bed sobering centre in Collingwood in November ...

Multnomah County opened 13 sobering beds in April for severely intoxicated people to sober up at any time of day. But very few have actually used those beds. That prompted the county this week to ...