A false alert about an active shooter at the office- and tourist-heavy Hudson Yards caused a brief but “heart pumping” panic Wednesday afternoon before it was confirmed to be a mistake. The alert was ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As federal investigators work to get to the bottom of the mistaken missile alert in Hawaii, regulators in Illinois say they are reassessing the state's emergency alarm system.

The alert was sent as part of a planned test of the university’s emergency notification system, according to a post on a university X account. Guy Rogers III SMU A campus alert warning of an active ...

A Hawaii Emergency Management Agency employee was fired after sending an emergency alert warning of a ballistic missile to the entire state.

Did your phone light up Thursday morning with an earthquake alert? Good news: There was no quake. The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring ...

ESTACADA, Ore. (KATU) — Portland General Electric (PGE) is apologizing to customers in the Estacada area who were jolted awake early Tuesday morning to an apparent false alarm about an issue at the ...

The world hasn’t ended yet. But for a brief moment for students at an Alabama institution this Thursday, it probably felt like it was about to. Early that afternoon, the alert system at Auburn ...

On December 4, 2025, millions of cell phones in California and Nevada buzzed with ShakeAlert warnings of a magnitude 5.9 ...

Residents across the Pacific Northwest—a region where catastrophic earthquake risk looms as an inescapable reality—depend on ShakeAlert, the country's only public earthquake early warning system, to ...

Traditional standalone security systems have inherently faced challenges related to false alarms and false dispatches. The integration of situational-awareness technologies presents a proven solution ...

(TNS) — The nation's largest school district plans to pilot an emergency system gaining popularity in American schools that directly alerts police in the event of a shooting or other emergency, ...