Even emergency alerts that reach people can be unclear.

A young boy disappeared in Kentucky early Tuesday, prompting a statewide alert, and was found dead hours later. A preliminary autopsy showed that 5-year-old Silas Chearer died from drowning. No foul ...

Residents increasingly tune out phone messages about floods and fires—if the alerts make it to them at all.

Kentuckians received an alert on Tuesday called an "Ian Alert." Here's the story behind it.

Chearer's disappearance prompted an "Ian Alert" across Kentucky before he was found. If you're not familiar, the alert was signed into law last year in Kentucky.

"Air Quality Alert," can be expected according to the NWS. "An alert for possible Moderate (Air Quality Index yellow category) to Unhealthy Air Quality Index red category) due to smoke has been ...

Magnitude 7.3 quake triggered tsunami warning in Alaska. There are hardly any earthquakes on the East Coast. Does that mean we can't get tsunamis?

How to enable urgent severe weather alerts on your iPhone, Android and more.

Authorities have issued a Blue Alert for Benjamin Hanil Song, wanted in a North Texas ICE facility ambush on July 4 that wounded an officer.

Here’s what works to save lives. River gauges, sirens and clear alerts can together help emergency managers anticipate flash floods and communicate life-saving information.

Waze will soon start working on a feature that makes the navigation experience cleaner by merging two or more alerts on the screen.