More communities in Texas and across the country are signing up to use the nation’s most powerful emergency alert system after deadly flooding in Central Texas exposed gaps in how warnings reach ...

Editor’s Note: The child’s age has been updated in this story after law enforcement provided a different age. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has rescinded its AMBER Alert ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A groundbreaking new emergency alert system designed to locate missing children with autism rapidly is officially becoming a reality across Florida. Beginning July 1st, the state ...

The Amber Alert that was issued Saturday for a missing 15-year-old in Craven County has been canceled The New Bern Police Department issued an Amber Alert on Saturday at 8:28 a.m. for 15-year-old a 15 ...

WASHINGTON—In a 3-0 vote by Commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted new rules for the Emergency Alerting System (EAS) that aim to preserve the public’s trust in EAS by ...

Radio stations and other EAS participants now have additional cybersecurity rules to follow that may affect their EAS and STL equipment. We reported earlier that these changes were pending. Now the ...

CONVERSE, Texas – UPDATE (June 26, 2026): The AMBER Alert issued earlier this week for a teenage mother and her child has been discontinued, according to the Texas Department of Safety. Alejandro ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denver will now require employees to receive additional approval before they can send wireless emergency alerts to residents, a change that comes after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine receiving an alert on your phone from a government agency at night, warning you about an alien attack, when you have ...

Brazil’s civil defense alert system was hacked, sending fake extreme alerts with the word “misantropi4” to millions of phones before the platform was shut down. The Federal Police has been activated ...

Millions in Brazil Get Fake Government Mobile Alert After Hack Text message alerts containing the word “misanthropy,” attributed to civil defense alert system, were sent out in Brazil on June 20.

An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government ...