The Department of Homeland Security is recommending that the Homeland Security Threat Advisory System -- known as the "color code" -- be scrapped in favor of warnings that would be more specific ...

Washington (CNN)-- The much-maligned, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System is about to be consigned to the proverbial dustbin of history. Not that anyone is really paying attention.

WASHINGTON (CNN) --Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge on Tuesday unveiled a new color-coded U.S. threat advisory system to create "a national framework and a common vocabulary" so that government ...

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh ... The National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS), which replaced the much-maligned color-coded matrix created in the aftermath of 9/11, had never ...

Secretary Janet Napolitano named a task force Tuesday to review the Homeland Security Advisory System ... insisted on keeping the color chart but did tweak the system to specify threats including ...