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

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

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

An emergency fund that can cover six months' worth of expenses is far easier to build if you focus on smaller goals at first.

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

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

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

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