Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane season is likely to put more responsibilities on states to ...

New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

When President Ronald Reagan’s White House threatened thousands of government officials with polygraph exams, supposedly to protect classified data (but probably also to control press leaks), his ...

The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.

The United States is reducing the number of people deemed nonessential to operations in the Middle East, the State Department has announced. The U.S. is also authorizing nonessential personnel and ...

Reuters reported yesterday that acting FEMA head David Richardson suggested during a meeting with employees that he was unaware of the very existence of a hurricane season. A spokesperson for the ...

And yet if FEMA isn’t prepared for hurricane season, doesn’t have sufficient staff, and is laboring under a president who would like to see it gone, the problem may not be that only the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WKRC) - A recently-fired airport employee was arrested after he allegedly returned to his place of work with a firearm and asked to see the man who was responsible for getting him ...

As FEMA prepares for hurricane season starting on Jun 1, the agency is ill-prepared, according to an internal document obtained by ABC News.

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was joking when he said he was not aware the U.S. had an official hurricane season, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), whic… ...