WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Did you get this emergency alert message Monday evening? This message was sent out Sunday evening and again Monday evening. According to a spokesperson for the Kansas Department ...

A new shark alert system would empower authorities to quickly deploy warnings through mobile phone alert messages after a shark attack. LuLu’s Law is now in the hands of the House of Representatives ...

Get ready to hear a piercingly unpleasant noise this Sunday, as all around the country, 87 million phones vibrate with a government alert. It is the second nationwide test of a warning system, telling ...

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 ...

Tsunamis made it into the news this month. On July 16, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck south of the Alaska Peninsula, and four days later, a 7.4 occurred off the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Thanks to upgraded technology, the Amber Alerts sent to your cellphone can now feature more information. Wireless Emergency Alerts will now allow up to 360 characters instead of ...

The jarring bleat came across cellphones in Tennessee Monday morning grabbing peoples attention. The notice, a 2-year-old is missing. The earsplitting sound came after the Tennessee Bureau of ...

Emergency alerts need to keep up with the pace of technology and infamous errors, such as January’s false missile alarm in Hawaii, must be lessons to guide developers, House lawmakers heard Tuesday.

In his first press conference after the deadly floods last weekend, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said unequivocally that the area did not have an emergency alert system. “We have no warning system,” he ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The state of Florida has completed the first end-to-end cell broadcast technology test following the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) standard in a public-private partnership ...