Recent severe storms have underscored the importance of emergency alert systems in North Carolina, with counties like Orange, Durham, and Chatham issuing numerous life-saving notifications.

Here’s how Southern California fire and police departments prepared for and responded to one of the busiest days of the year.

The catastrophic Central Texas floods have claimed at least 121 lives and left 173 missing, as a report reveals that Kerr ...

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood ...

Orange County jail staff could be required to transport ICE detainees, if modified agreement is approved by commissioners ...

The precautionary boil water advisory for the State Road 535 area of Orange County has been lifted. This week’s advisory was ...

Fireworks are not harmless. Each year they cause thousands of fires, send children to emergency rooms with burns and blast ...

Volusia County is offering specialized training for volunteers to assist their neighbors during emergencies, with the first session held Thursday night.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggered a statewide warning Friday about unhealthy air that will run through Monday morning. ...

As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of ...

Lower-income people will be the hardest hit. Over the next 10 years, 3.4 million Californians could lose coverage.

The good news is that every county in the Hudson Valley has a participating institution. From Ulster County Community College ...