People across the UK will soon hear a loud, siren-like sound coming from their mobile phones and tablets as the government conducts another test of its emergency alert system. The system, introduced ...

Nearly every mobile phone in the UK is set to receive an emergency alert message next month in what is being described as "one of the biggest public safety exercises” in UK history. The message will ...

The government has announced measures to beef up the resilience of the UK’s 999 emergency call handling system. This comes nine months after communications regulator Ofcom launched an investigation ...

The city’s sirens can only be heard in one section of South Providence, and it isn’t clear what to do if you hear one. Mobile alerts will be the standard. PROVIDENCE — When deadly wildfires hit Maui ...