“States don’t have that capability built to handle a disaster every single year,” Lynn Budd, director of the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, told Stateline in an interview. Access to FEMA avoids ...

In 1980, the Carter administration created FEMA to speed up the government’s response to worsening disasters. The agency got its own multibillion-dollar pot of money to reimburse states for ...

Puerto Ricans are no strangers to offering and receiving help in times of need. The island's geographical location makes it ...

Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to get state resources ready as strong storms moved ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem and others are weighing whether to strip FEMA of some of its key ...

Last year was one of the worst years for U.S. natural disasters, according to researchers, as the Federal Emergency ...

As the frequency of natural disasters rises, the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has come under scrutiny, particularly amid proposed cuts from political leaders like former ...

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to reshape the federal health department has left its roughly 1,000 emergency ...