Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. PST Los Angeles County public health officials issue closures of several miles of beach near the Palisades ...

North Carolina is another state prone to hurricanes—and in fact Hurricane Helene last fall triggered a Biden administration ...

Were people displaced by Helene wrongly kicked out of hotels while still eligible for FEMA vouchers? Confusion reigns.

The department received a 2023 Assistance Firefighters Grant worth $495,000 for the purchase of 52 new air packs, which are ...

President Donald Trump suggested that he may "get rid" of FEMA and delegate its responsibilities to the states.

With trips to North Carolina and California on Friday, Republican U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat to the federal disaster assistance agency, drawing swift rebukes from climate ...

“It’s an intriguing idea,” said Ms. Budd, who is director of the Wyoming ... manage disasters when they occur. Image Deanne Criswell, who ran FEMA during the Biden administration, worried ...

That could have chilling effects on emergency response even at state levels, former FEMA chief Deanne Criswell told CNN. “We need to take him at his word, and I think state emergency management ...

In his Fox News interview, Trump said that FEMA had failed to do enough to help storm-damaged North Carolina last fall and that it was politically motivated. “The Democrats actually used FEMA not to ...

Deployed at least 1,500 FEMA staff members in the Southeast before the hurricane made landfall, Deanne Criswell, FEMA’s top administrator at the time, told The Charlotte Observer in a Dec. 4 ...