Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 29—Telephone-based mass notification systems are used by thousands of public safety agencies across the U.S. to warn ...

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 ...

The City of Stillwater will implement a new instant notification system to better alert the community ahead of emergency situations like the March 2025 wildfires. City Council voted to approve an ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - Multnomah County is planning to send a test alert for its Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system on Thursday afternoon. The county says the alert will go to the cell ...

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BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The next notification on your phone might be one you wouldn’t expect: a shark alert. A new state law now requires Alabama emergency officials to administer a wireless ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — People in the Portland metro area might have received an emergency alert test message on Thursday afternoon. Multnomah County planned to send a rare test of its wireless ...