The decision favors a coalition of 12 states that sued the Trump administration over new conditions for disaster recovery and ...

FEMA was created in 1979 by an executive order by President Jimmy Carter. The federal agency has over 20,000 employees and is responsible for coordinating responses to disasters in the U.S. President ...

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials ...

Upheaval at the nation’s top disaster agency is raising anxiety among state and local emergency managers — and leaving major questions about the whereabouts of billions of federal dollars it pays out ...

A FEMA search and rescue team searches debris in North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Disasters were declared in eight states due to damage from the storm. Reorganization at FEMA has ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. FEMA Urban Search and Rescue work with LA County Fire Fighters search ...

Federal Emergency Management Agency leaders were told to prepare for a possible gutting of their workforce — by as much as half — in the coming months, according to an internal email sent to top FEMA ...

"This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here." As 2025 draws to a close, the departure of the beleaguered acting director of the Federal Emergency ...

Read full article: Silver Alert issued for missing 67-year-old woman last seen at Spring hotel Teen killed after minibike pursuit with Harris County Sheriff's Office in northeast Houston; crash at ...

I've been an emergency manager for nearly three decades, and one thing has never changed: All disasters begin and end at the local level. Whether I was leading emergency operations in a small town or ...