Texas House and Senate panels have advanced a suite of bills aimed at improving early warning systems, expanding emergency ...

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS ...

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting leader has adamantly defended the federal government’s response to historic flooding in Texas earlier this month, saying lawmakers’ attacks on the ...

The decision was likely in part due to the agency's delayed response to the flooding disaster in Central Texas. Senior FEMA leader Ken Pagurek told colleagues this was the last straw after months of ...

The flooding in Texas highlighted the need for Indiana’s search and rescue units to enhance their team efforts, Gov. Mike ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under fire amid reports of a botched disaster response effort in Texas, one that the editorial board of the state’s biggest newspaper is comparing to the ...

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

DHS head Kristi Noem refuted a CNN report that her requirement for personal sign-off on DHS contracts over $100,000 slowed emergency response to deadly Texas flooding.

U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday pressed David Richardson, acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about his ...

Republicans and Democrats in Congress questions the FEMA chief about the agency's response following flooding in Hill Country that left more than 130 people dead.