Saginaw County Central Dispatch receives about 60 percent of its 911 calls each year from cell phone users. Legislation nearing final approval could allow those callers to pay for the service. All ...

Spectrum advises customers to use mobile phones during overnight maintenance which could interrupt 911 access through home ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.- A severed cable made it impossible to call 911 in Santa Barbara County and parts of San Luis obispo counties earlier this week. Officials encouraged texting 911 as a workaround, ...

COLUMBIA COUNTY, Wis. (WKOW) — A 911 telephone outage emergency was reported in several counties in southern Wisconsin on Monday. The first outage was reported at 2:28 p.m. in Columbia County. The ...

Some 911 calls dialed by residents of Salt Lake City and Sandy soon may be answered by something like a robot, powered by artificial intelligence. Faced with chronic understaffing among the ranks of ...

Your phone can call 911 for you if you’ve been in an accident and are too injured to call for help yourself. This happened in the Miami Valley last week during a crash on Interstate 70 in Clark County ...

Update: As of 1:10 p.m., the 911 and non-emergency phone lines have been restored. Officials in Dauphin County said all phone lines, emergency and non-emergency, at the county 911 center stopped ...

Accidental 911 calls happen more often than you may think. In 1987, only 50 percent of the U.S. population had access to 911, the universal emergency assistance line that had been championed by ...