Wireless Emergency Alerts — a national public warning system commonly used by state and local authorities to deliver important information about severe weather, natural disasters, or missing persons ...

You’ve probably had it happen before: Three loud beeps followed by a long, high-pitched sound delivered to your mobile phone to alert you to severe weather or another emergency near you. These jolting ...

Attorney General Letitia James is celebrating an FCC order expanding emergency cell phone alerts to include multiple ...

Multnomah County will test its Wireless Emergency Alert system Thursday at 2 p.m., sending notifications to up to 1 million cell phones across the metro area, including devices in neighboring counties ...

The Scott County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) is conducting a countywide test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system for cell phones on January 10 at 1 p.m. The TEST ensures that public ...

Providence residents got no automatic alerts after the Brown shooting, raising concerns about local warning systems.