After the devastating Texas flooding earlier this month and with hurricane season well underway, it's more urgent than ever to make sure your phone can alert you -- loudly and clearly -- when danger ...

• Also under “Government Alerts,” tap “Emergency Alerts.” For older phones, this will simply turn Emergency Alerts ON. For ...

LAFAYETTE, LA (KLFY) – Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) and the Lafayette Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (OHSEP) announced the official launch of LafayetteNOW, a ...

In the event of severe weather, natural disasters, and other emergencies, receiving accurate information from official sources in a timely manner can be life-saving. Your smartphone can alert you to ...

Central Texas is still reeling from those devastating floods that claimed more than 100 lives and left dozens missing. Torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to rise nearly 30 feet in under an ...

A mobile app emergency notification system providing information on incidents in Weld County was taken offline for unknown reasons this week, but 911 operations were not affected by the outage, the ...

A new feature to a free Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) app that will enable users to receive weather alerts from the National Weather Service for up to five locations across the nation is ...

An emergency alert app has crashed as one Aussie state battles multiple bushfires which are threatening lives and property ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has released an app that it says compiles the school’s safety resources into one convenient place. Dubbed CU Boulder Safe, the app can send out emergency alerts, ...

University of California, Berkeley this week announced a new app it will use to send emergency alerts about threats and crimes on or near its campus. The UC Berkeley WarnMe system is used to send ...

ADA COUNTY, Idaho — Ada County will conduct a comprehensive test of its emergency notification systems Monday evening, sending alerts to residents in the Barber Valley area as part of a coordinated ...