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 ...

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 ...

At around 3pm on Sunday afternoon (September 7), mobiles connected to 4G and 5G networks vibrated and sounded for approximately 10 seconds in the second test of the Government's emergency alert system ...

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

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 ...