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

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

The Department of Homeland Security is shifting gears—and staff—at one of the worst possible times. FEMA employees are being directed to temporarily transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Trump lands in Texas to survey flood damage - President Donald Trump has landed in Texas for a firsthand look at the devastation caused by catastrophic flooding that has killed at least 120 people, wh ...

He also blasts FEMA leadership under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as dangerously unprepared for disaster season, warning: “FEMA is in worse shape than any other agency… ...

Ken Pagurek, head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, resigns following delayed response to Texas floods ...

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

In the wake of deadly flooding in Texas, we don’t know where the current FEMA chief is, or whether he’s doing the job. That’s not ideal.