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.

Buncombe County is expected to have consecutive Code Purple nights during the first week of December 2025 amid cold temperatures.Asheville-Buncombe Continuum of Care (CoC) announced that Code Purple ...

Is to provide a coordinated effort among Asheville and Buncombe County shelters and other organizations to provide emergency overflow shelter to people experiencing homelessness. During Code Purple, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Buncombe County officials issued a Code Purple notice due to extremely code weather starting Tuesday night. The notice is issued to provide emergency overflow ...

ASHEVILLE - In the last three months, the Fellowship Hall has been transformed. The church basement of Trinity United Methodist Church in West Asheville has served as a temporary home for dozens since ...

COMPUTER MODEL IN JUST A MINUTE. ALL RIGHT, CHRIS. THANK YOU TONIGHT. WE’RE SEEING INSIDE A CODE PURPLE SHELTER. THEY’RE OPEN FOR THE HOMELESS WHEN IT DROPS BELOW 32° OUR NOLAN BLAIR JOINS US LIVE ...

Some members of a tent community of homeless people in Seaford will not seek shelter as the temperature falls in Sussex County. That worries Nikki Gonzalez. The National Weather Service has issued a ...

DOVER, Del. -- City officials say they will allow Code Purple Kent County to give homeless people access to churches in Dover without fire sprinklers, so long as those operations fall under the ...