The Trump administration is abruptly cutting dozens of disaster response and recovery staff at the Federal Emergency ...

The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency.

Internal agency emails and documents, as well as people familiar with the plans, suggest Noem is spearheading the drastic ...

Every year, many of us go in for a routine physical. Not because anything feels wrong, but because it is useful to know what ...

Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it could be dismantled as soon as December. Lately, his team has backed away ...

[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...

City and county managers play vital roles in emergency management and so too should elected officials. But the effectiveness of these officials in their roles is variable and depends highly on where ...

People across the country and the world are reflecting on former President Jimmy Carter and his life, which was full of achievements. He died at the age of 100 at his longtime home in Plains, Georgia.

In 2018, the small, picturesque town of Ellicott City, MD was devastated by a one-in-1,000-year flash flood. This happened just two years after it was similarly devastated by what was also ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal-Soldiers, Airmen, Seamen and Marines assigned to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command worked together with more than 300 civilian and military disaster response professionals from 14 countries ...

JAKARTA: The Indonesian government has prepared a budget of between 53 to 60 trillion rupiah for disaster emergency response ...