Did your phone light up this morning with an earthquake alert? Good news: There was no quake. The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring alerted ...

ESTACADA, Ore. (KATU) — Portland General Electric (PGE) is apologizing to customers in the Estacada area who were jolted awake early Tuesday morning to an apparent false alarm about an issue at the ...

Following the announcement that Google Nest will stop manufacturing its Nest Protect Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarms, First Alert has stepped in to offer a solution. The new First Alert Smart Smoke & ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A “false alarm” left residents shaken along the Clackamas River early Tuesday morning over fears that Rivermill Dam had malfunctioned. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office ...

Firefighters in Illinois responded to 17,437 more false alarms in 2024 than they did three years earlier when the Illinois State Fire Marshal first began tracking those figures. But while some of ...

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But ...