After years of delays and $456 million spent on getting California’s Next Generation 911 system off the ground, two bills aim ...

OPINION – We are living in an unprecedented moment, and our emergency communications system must meet our demands. We cannot ...

When you dial 911, you expect your call to go through and for help to arrive quickly. But California's 50-year-old emergency notification network is outdated; lacks modern capabilities like text, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2018, as California was laying the groundwork to build a new 911 system for the state, a massive fire ripped through Butte ...

Tucson's problematic 911 emergency call system will be examined Tuesday, as the City Council talks about the issue in both closed and open session. The new 911 emergency system, installed in late May, ...

Update (9:15 p.m.) - Officials in an update this evening said the issue affecting 911 systems has been resolved. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office reports that the state 911 system is ...

Following years of delays and technical issues plaguing the state’s overhaul of its aging 9-1-1 system, officials with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) outlined a plan ...

An overnight 911 system outage affecting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's jurisdiction has been restored. The Sheriff's Department said its system went down at about 6:02 p.m. Thursday, ...

Law enforcement agencies report that 911 service has been restored after a fiber line was cut in Mississippi, leading to a four-hour outage across that state and parts of Louisiana on Thursday. The ...

Between 2019 and 2025, California paid four technology companies over $450 million to build out its Next Generation 911 system, a more advanced emergency communication tool that would provide ...