What about NORAD's Santa-tracking domain? By now, it's a famous story: back in December of 1955, a red phone at the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor, started ringing. It wasn't a ...

The air defense center was created in the 1950s, as a counter to a rival superpower. Now NORAD is front and center again, prompting questions about what it does — and how it copes with modern ...

Watch Santa’s Delivery Journey! Live NORAD Tracker Back Up After Glitch, Carried By TV Stations Worldwide. Dominic Patten. Sun, December 24, 2023 at 6:39 PM UTC. 2 min read.

The NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado on Dec. 24, 2022. Volunteers carried on a tradition dating back to 1955. They'll be back this year.

After a glitch, NORAD's live Santa tracker is back up and running. Watch his journey here, carried by TV stations worldwide.

NORAD also assesses that this Russian flight activity is in no way related to recent NORAD and U.S. Northern Command operations associated with airborne objects over North America during the last ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on May 12, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. For most of us, NORAD really only has one job ...

NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010.

For decades, NORAD was headquartered in Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain — a bunker facility whose tunnel entrance will likely be familiar to anyone who has watched the Stargate movie or TV series.