While no one particularly enjoys them, annual emergency management drills serve a vital purpose for school districts and are ...

Law enforcement and emergency response agencies from Paducah and the surrounding region joined the U.S. Coast Guard on the Ohio River at the Port of Paducah Wednesday for boat drills ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Several counties across the Lowcountry are holding hurricane preparedness events this week ahead of the official start of the hurricane season on June 1.

A first-of its-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses ... Maryland, and at a Federal Emergency ...

Nearly 20 agencies gathered on Wednesday as the Cass County Local Emergency Planning Committee held its annual hazardous materials exercise at the Walton Community Fire Department. The exercise, ...

Ironically, the exercise last May was interrupted by a real scenario, when Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm in two decades ...

As Florida emergency response officials conduct their annual statewide hurricane preparedness exercise this week, emergency ...

Local officials and emergency management experts say that Louisiana could face a disaster on top of a disaster in the event ...

Lafayette Consolidated Goverbnebt and other government agencies may be paying for more of the cost to recovery from disasters ...

Scientists claim we’re not prepared for the solar storms threatening Earth, which could cause cataclysmic blackouts, grid breakdowns and even an “internet apocalypse,” according to a frightening ...

Recent intense solar flares, originating from sunspot AR4087, have triggered global concerns about potential space weather ...

Some 13,000 years ago, the sun emitted a huge belch of radiation that bombarded Earth and left its imprint in ancient tree rings. That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next ...