The backbone of emergency management is under threat, former federal officials say. Small towns may be the first to feel the ...

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren is one of a dozen California representatives to Congress who criticized Trump’s budget request for the ...

A former high ranking Federal Emergency Management Agency official defends a federal disaster recovery program that's on the chopping block. David Maurstad was Nebraska's Lieutenant Governor in ...

Every year, millions of Americans rely on FEMA assistance after hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and other disasters. The ...

Aid groups, some of which helped after Hurricane Helene, are preparing to take on more responsibility when storms, floods and ...

Congressman Jared Moskowitz, a former Florida emergency management director and executive at a disaster response company, says the Trump administration has "turned FEMA into the Newark Airport." ...

A key reason is that, since FEMA’s creation in 1979, states have come to rely on the agency to pay for their emergency management agencies’ day-to-day operations. In North Dakota, Homeland ...

FEMA leader is replaced, as disaster season begins The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Cameron Hamilton, has been replaced. The shake up comes weeks before the start of the ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making significant changes to how it will respond to disasters on the ground this season, including ending federal door-to-door canvassing of survivors ...