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Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...
In a statement, Cory Schwisow, interim director of Monroe County Emergency Management, said the county was recently qualified ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a new bipartisan bill. The proposal comes as the Trump administration ...
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, confirmed to ...
With the White House poised to possibly overhaul how FEMA functions, Vermont's state treasurer joined financial leaders from Texas, New Mexico and Minnesota to say the agency has an important role in ...
Every year, millions of Americans rely on FEMA assistance after hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and other disasters. The president says state governments should do more.
Jonathan Cohn talk with an old friend Juliette Kayyem.
President Donald Trump has seemingly softened his stance on phasing out the Federal Emergency Management Agency completely, with the administration now planning on using it to highlight local and ...
The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FEMA denied key disaster aid requests from Kentucky and Maryland, prompting both states' governors to plan appeals.
States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...