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ASHEVILLE - With cool temperatures incoming, Asheville shelters have called Code Purple for Nov. 20, the first of the season, activating emergency shelter beds for people experiencing homelessness.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has impacted the air quality throughout United States, including in the northern High Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, southern Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. This has ...

In October, the Continuum of Care Board approved the plan for the Code Purple season for Nov.1, 2025-April 30, 2026. Code Purple is a coordinated effort among Buncombe County and Asheville shelters to ...

Delaware's homeless are facing a COVID-19 double whammy. Not only are they disproportionately affected by the virus, but emergency shelters are housing fewer people to meet social distancing ...

IT TAKES A VILLAGE: Frontline workers such as Justin Pritchard, a community paramedic with Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services' post-overdose response team, help unhoused people find shelter on ...

BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Buncombe County Government announced a Code Purple is in effect due to cold weather. Code Purple is a coordinated effort to increase emergency shelter ...

In this Aug. 11, 2020, file photo, beds fill a homeless shelter inside a convention center. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) This story is from Young, Unhoused and Unseen, a podcast production from WHYY ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The freezing temperatures are prompting several emergency shelters in Western North Carolina to open. A code purple is now in effect starting Tuesday, Oct. 31 through ...

DOVER, DE- As temperatures drop, Delaware's homeless have a new place to turn. Code Purple opened its doors on Monday, December 1, providing warmth and safety for neighbors experiencing homelessness ...

With the colder months upon us, the Code Purple season will soon begin on Saturday, Nov. 1. Code Purple is a community response that expands emergency shelter capacity when the temperature drops to 32 ...