Tsunami warnings prompted gridlocked traffic as people tried to reach higher elevations in Hawaii, but the threat level was ...

World Hawaii's false alarm should prompt talk about what to do if there's a nuclear attack: expert U.S. has tens of thousands of fallout shelters, but these Cold War relics may not be an option ...

Hawaii officials apologized repeatedly and said the alert was sent when someone hit the wrong button during a shift change. Hawaii lacked safeguards to prevent false alarm about missile attack ...

A false alarm that warned of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic Saturday, with people abandoning cars in a highway and preparing to flee their homes until ...

HONOLULU—A timeline shows Hawaii officials botched efforts to immediately correct a false missile alert over the weekend, taking more than 20 minutes to contact federal authorities for approval ...

A screengrab of the push notification sent to people in Hawaii alerting a “ballistic missile threat.” The alert was later confirmed as a false alarm. (Twitter) MAUI, HI.—As a vacation ...

Of course, 38 minutes later -- less than the time it would take a nuke to travel from North Korea to Hawaii, by the way -- state officials issued a retraction, calling the first alert a "false alarm." ...

On a normal day, there aren’t many people heading to Google to figure out how to survive a nuclear strike. But Saturday was not a normal day. Shortly after 2:30 p.m. Eastern, searches for “how ...

This smartphone screen capture shows the retraction of a false incoming ballistic missile emergency alert sent from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency system on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018.

Saturday, you might have seen the news about a “false alarm” push alert that was sent to many iPhones and other smart phones in Hawaii. A troubling alert was also sent out over many TV ...