NEW ORLEANS — In your Breakdown: How to make sure Wireless Emergency Alerts on your phone are turned on. WEA alerts will sound on all phones in a specific area. They’re sent by authorized government ...

• Also under “Government Alerts,” tap “Emergency Alerts.” For older phones, this will simply turn Emergency Alerts ON. For ...

Whether it’s tornadoes, flash floods, hurricanes or just bad storms, inclement weather is an ever-present danger no matter where you live. But gone are the days when you had to be glued to the TV to ...

The death toll continues to climb in Texas after heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Guadalupe River, sending floodwaters through homes and summer camps. More than 100 were reported killed, including at ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Starting Friday, Aug. 1, the Lucas County Emergency Management Agency will begin monthly testing of its Wireless Emergency Alerts system. The tests will be sent at noon on the first ...

Central Texas is still reeling from those devastating floods that claimed more than 100 lives and left dozens missing. Torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to rise nearly 30 feet in under an ...

SAN ANTONIO — A little over a week after the July Fourth floods that devastated the Texas Hill Country, killing more than 100 people in the Kerr County area alone, another round of potentially intense ...

MONTICELLO, Minn. — Over more than a half-century of operating the Monticello and Prairie Island nuclear plants, Xcel Energy has never experienced an emergency dire enough to trigger immediate ...

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 ...

The ShakeAlert system that warns about imminent shaking arriving from earthquakes sent a false alarm across California on Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor that did not happen.

Wireless Emergency Alerts are sent by the National Weather Service and distributed by your mobile provider. WEA service is free and there's no signup required but you won't get an alert if the ...