Gov. Stein has issued a State of Emergency for North Carolina. Here’s what that means and some past examples of declarations.

Emergency evacuation alerts have gone off the rails, pinging people seemingly at random. Experts say that such errors can sow ...

Flight 2668 had 201 passengers onboard, who were evacuated from the plane via emergency slides and taken back to the terminal ...

The trouble was discovered on Christmas Day, when an eagle-eyed neighbor spotted water coming out of the door of Tree House’s ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday declared a public health emergency for California to address ...

A number of states are seeing a spike in hospital visits caused by respiratory illnesses as we enter the New Year.

A Delta flight with more than 200 passengers leaving Atlanta was forced to abort takeoff because of an engine issue and ...

A recent increase in cases of the human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in China has been misrepresented on social media as evidence ...

The last president to declare an energy emergency was Jimmy Carter, who in 1977 called U.S. efforts to confront a domestic ...

"It’s hard to see, because there’s so much pain and suffering,” said one local, who dropped off toys at the Westwood ...

L.A. County Office of Emergency Management said the alerts are not being sent by a person and his office is trying to find ...