UNITED STATES (CBS) — Your electronic devices may alarm you today — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m.

New York City’s emergency management agency, which ran the alert network, said it needed to free up personnel to help ...

A nationwide test of emergency alerts triggered simultaneous messages across millions of mobile phones in the country on May ...

Lane County residents who subscribe to the Lane Alerts emergency notification system will receive a test message at 12:00 p.m ...