UNITED STATES (CBS) — Your electronic devices may alarm you today — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m.

Prepare yourselves – this weekend is when 87 million phones will vibrate, play a loud noise and generally be a massive nuisance as the government sets off an alert. It is the second nationwide test of ...

The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, has launched two new ways to send emergency alerts to the ...

Hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to come to Kansas City this summer for the World Cup, and local organizers and ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - Multnomah County is planning to send a test alert for its Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system on Thursday afternoon. The county says the alert will go to the cell ...

Fort Worth changed its emergency alert system, and you might not be signed up anymore. Here’s how to check before the next statewide test.

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 Friday of each ...

The City of El Paso say that in coordination with the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), the El Paso City-County ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – A cybersecurity incident appears to have caused a nationwide outage of an emergency notification system called “CodeRED.” The CodeRED notification system is just one of several ...