When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many local emergency ...

An emergency alert test message from South Pasadena was accidentally sent to an estimated 10 million mobile phones across Los ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — Multnomah County will test its Wireless Emergency Alert system Thursday at 2 p.m., sending notifications to up to 1 million cell phones across the metro area, including ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were jolted awake early Sunday morning to a Turquoise Alert, a new emergency notification ...

Representatives for Auburn University on Thursday issued an apology to students and campus employees after a technical error caused a false active shooter alert and a false tornado warning alert to be ...

County officials say human error was the reason a shelter-in-place alert meant for just a small portion of Robbinsdale residents was mistakenly sent to all of ...