As "500 year" floods become nearly annual events, the founder of the nonprofit Disaster Accountability Project explains why ...

The anticipated layoffs would affect FEMA's Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees (CORE) who support disaster recovery ...

FEMA CORE employees make up approximately 40% of FEMA’s workforce and are deployed, as needed, to disaster areas to assist with response and recovery. In 2023, the Government Accountability Office ...

Job cuts affect how quickly infrastructure is rebuilt, how soon businesses reopen and how efficiently insurance claims move ...

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

Homeland Security plans could slash thousands of FEMA disaster response jobs in 2026, raising concerns about delays in ...

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week ...

North Carolina’s emergency management chief says the state has “significant concerns” with planned changes to Public ...

We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson has formally asked the federal government to declare a major disaster in Washington following historic ...

Ahead of a winter storm forecast to blanket Texas this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott has activated a state emergency response.

President Donald Trump during a January 2025 visit to North Carolina named Michael Whatley as being in charge of the response ...