A 10-second 'Armageddon alert' siren will sound on millions of UK mobile phones at some point this year as part of a test of the government's emergency alert system. The alert, for which a date hasn't ...

Starting today, the City and County of Honolulu officially launches its new real- time, mass-notification system to inform the public about severe weather, beach and ocean safety conditions, drinking ...

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 ...

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 ...

In response to Federal Communications Commission requirements, mobile carriers are requiring emergency notification system users to differentiate between emergency and operational SMS (text) messages.