WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency messages ...

Siren sounds have blared from mobile phones across the country in a test of the national emergency alert system. At around 15:00 on Sunday, mobiles vibrated and sounded for about 10 seconds in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arizona law enforcement recently issued a Silver Alert, causing a flurry of alerts and messages prompting people to be on the lookout for a missing person. The Arizona Department of Public Safety ...