You may have heard all kinds of theories about those purple streetlights that have been popping up. Most of them are false.

Gregg Bach, a spokesperson for Street PHX, said 1,200 of the purple lights started popping up a couple of months ago in the city. In total, there are 100,000 lights in Phoenix.

Davenport city officials have received several reports of blue/purple street lights popping up throughout the city. "These are not purposeful, rather a recently discovered defect with a particular ...

Some residents of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley were briefly enveloped in shades of pink and purple this morning. In Kelowna, a pink-hued fog appeared for several minutes shortly after 7:30 a ...