Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday appealed multiple federal disaster aid denials after the Federal Emergency ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's assessment of flood damage in Milwaukee, Waukesha and Washington counties is ...

Dustin Willett, Director of Emergency Management for Rapid City and Pennington County, noted that federal funding had dropped ...

The declaration, if approved, would cover both Caledonia and Essex counties and allow for the disbursement of federal funds ...

Such concerns mounted in July, as images circulated of the hand bruise as well as of swelling in his ankles. At the time, the ...

N early 200 current and former staffers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned on Monday that recent ...

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has declared a disaster emergency in Pueblo County following the discovery of "20 or so" bodies ...

FEMA's assistance is initiated by an official request made by a state, tribal or territorial government. FEMA does not automatically respond to every disaster, according to the agency website.

TOKYO >> Japan’s central government will be sizing up the cost for evacuation shelters, modeled after a type being designed by the Tokyo metropolitan government, with an eye toward widespread ...

The Trump administration is transferring Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers to help speed the hiring of thousands of immigration enforcement agents, according to staff notices seen by ...

In May, members of Congress wrote a bipartisan letter to FEMA asking the agency to reinstate the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Grant funds.

Why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have ...