The San Jose Mercury News has a feature called Mr. Roadshow, and it recently hosted an online conversation on the topic of radio ads that feature loud sirens and blaring horns. This type of content ...

Communities have used loud sirens to warn people about approaching storms, tsunamis and tornadoes, but now some activists in Los Angeles are using sirens to warn about immigration agents. Since ...

The UK's Emergency Alerts system will broadcast a loud notification to mobile phones and tablets across the nation in the coming days. The trial alert, anticipated to run for approximately 10 seconds, ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Emergency sirens are everywhere across southeast Michigan. They are the loudest way to know something bad is coming, often a tornado or severe thunderstorm. But it’s 2026, and new ...

When severe weather strikes, the warning may come from several places at once. A loud outdoor siren might sound across a neighborhood. A smartphone may blare with an emergency alert. Television ...

Silenced after officials received an anonymous noise complaint, locals in Holyoke, Mass. are calling for changes to city rules so a long-running tradition can continue along the city's canals. The air ...

A grassroots effort in Los Angeles is working to install warning sirens to alert neighbors when federal immigration agents are spotted in the city's Highland Park neighborhood. (Myung J. Chun / Los ...