The colorful murals painted by schoolchildren barely cheer up the windowless, cinder-block room where dogs lie on plastic beds or concrete floors in chain-link enclosures. In the drab room next ...

In a bombed-out cinder block shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the cruel cold of January, Connie Duckworth found the road map for the rest of her life. “I view life as a journey,” she says.

Walls are framed, insulated, and covered with plywood, and sit atop wooden cinder blocks. Shelters being constructed by the group Feed the Block at an undisclosed location in San Jose.

Renovations at the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society’s Washougal dog shelter are improving life for both the dogs awaiting homes and the shelter staff who care for them.

When I was a young boy exploring my neighborhood near Seattle, I discovered a strange little building built of cinder blocks that appeared to be howling. Filled with dogs and cats that were locked ...

We ended up riding out a hurricane in a cinder-block shelter. Essay by Melissa Persling. Few tourists enjoy the beach in Cancun, state of Quintana Roo 19 August, 2007, before the arrival of ...

The 7,000-square-foot building will be three times the size of the obsolete, cinder-block shelter it is replacing across the road, next to the city's equipment yard.

Companion Animal Alliance animal care attendant Frederick Robertson uses water to clean the concrete floor dog kennel at CAA's older shelter on Progress Road, Thursday, Oct, 18, 2018.