You’ve probably had it happen before: Three loud beeps followed by a long, high-pitched sound delivered to your mobile phone to alert you to severe weather or another emergency near you. These jolting ...

The sound of an emergency alert would have been a help for some residents but could have endangered others, city officials ...

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 devices in neighboring counties ...

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Cell phones across Houston will ping with an Amber Alert-style warning at 11 a.m. Friday as city officials test the emergency messaging system. "This (wireless emergency alert) message would be for a ...

Providence residents got no automatic alerts after the Brown shooting, raising concerns about local warning systems.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency ...

BOISE, Idaho — Around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, residents of Ada County may get an alert on their phones. The Ada County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) states this is simply a test. According to an update from ...

Before the first alerts came out from Brown, many community members heard about the shooting from social media, or ...