WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency messages ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The City of Houston Office of Emergency Management (OEM) will conduct a city-wide test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) ...

Jan. 29—Telephone-based mass notification systems are used by thousands of public safety agencies across the U.S. to warn residents about local emergencies, hazards and other threats. Dixon officials ...

VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. (WSBT) — Three counties in Southwest Michigan will test their Emergency Alert Systems at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday. Allegan, Berrien, and Van Buren counties will be testing the ...

A coordinated live test of public alerting systems will take place across several counties Wednesday at 10:50 a.m. Residents can expect a test message being sent to their phones using the Wireless ...

New Yorkers had a jarring experience with the Wireless Emergency Alert system Monday morning. At 7:56 a.m. ET, phones went off throughout the greater New York City area to convey information about the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — There’s no shortage of emergency alerts going out to residents in Central Texas, but a new system is hoping to make it easier for the city of Austin to send out alerts. Earlier this ...

The South Carolina Emergency Management Division (SCEMD) is alerting residents to a nationwide outage of the CodeRED notification system, one of several alert tools used by emergency management ...