It's severe weather season and tornadoes can strike at any time. Do you have a plan to keep you and your family safe? As part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, WKAR will participate in the ...

The current Emergency Alert System (EAS) was deployed in the late ‘90s. In ATSC 1.0, the EAS signal is implemented via audio messaging. It is usually accompanied by a text crawl across the live video ...

Denver is nearly doubling the 9-1-1 fee on phone bills to help keep up with call volumes since they have not met the standard ...

Many will no doubt continue to press the government on why there was no emergency alert system, no texts, nothing. Not for ...

Violent storms have cut through a wide swath of the South and Midwest, spawning tornadoes and killing at least one person, ...

The number of wildfires burning in Florida is going up as residents anticipate more dry days, along with possible record high temperatures.

As communities in the central US grapple with widespread devastation from a line of deadly storms that spawned dozens of ...

A well-known annual gathering among IUP students and visitors, commonly referred to as IUPatty’s, unfolded this weekend. Local authorities and emergency responders experienced a busy but largely contr ...