Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...

States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...

U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald asked President Donald Trump to make an emergency declaration to ensure Wisconsin communities have ...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $4 billion meant to help communities protect ...

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from diverting more than $4 billion from a grant program designed ...

Gov. Tony Evers today announced he is submitting a request for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to assist the state in conducting a formal federal preliminary damage assessment of damage ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly recently sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) asking for a major ...

"Reform is good as long as it's holistic, but it's also got to be time-phased in over the next three years," said Brock Long.

This summer saw immense river flooding that resulted in more than 130 deaths in Texas and heavy rainfall that blocked roadways in Oklahoma. Disaster preparedness and hazard mitigation are becoming ...

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers urged President Donald Trump on Thursday to quickly approve a disaster declaration for Wisconsin as he toured a Red Cross shelter in Milwaukee, days after historic flooding ...

Two Democratic Senators sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday urging her to end a policy requiring her personal sign-off on grants of more than $100,000. “We write to ...