Iowa fire departments will transition to the National Emergency Response Information System by Jan. 1, 2026, modernizing ...

No one thinks about the old Emergency Broadcast Signal anymore. It feels like a relic of another era. But the frequencies ...

When someone goes missing in Utah, there are a variety of alerts that can be issued, with different criteria for each alert.

Residents across the Pacific Northwest—a region where catastrophic earthquake risk looms as an inescapable reality—depend on ...

If you live in areas expected to get hit with rain, heavy wind or flooding, it’s important to have Emergency Alerts enabled ...

What’s happened? Apple has pushed the watchOS 26.2 release candidate, the next upgrade for Apple Watch, and it contains Enhanced Safety Alerts. Why is this important? Getting emergency alerts on their ...

A cyber attack on the risk management company Crisis24 has crippled emergency alert systems, disrupting critical services relied upon by local governments, law enforcement agencies, and fire ...

A Purple Alert was issued for Joseph Cheatham, missing from his Tallahassee home. He was found dead in his car Dec. 2 in a parking lot. Here's what a Purple Alert is and how it differs from a Silver ...

In the immediate aftermath of the devastating July 4 weekend flooding that killed at least 136 people, a time when search and rescue teams were overwhelmed by the debris and heartbreak along the banks ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has spoken about integrating America’s largest education system in striking terms rarely heard from big city leaders. By Troy Closson More than 71 years ago, the United ...

At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric… It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence. —Albert Camus, The ...