The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to ...

In light of federal plans to phase out FEMA by the end of 2025, artificial intelligence can help multiply and streamline state and local preparation for, response to and recovery from wildfires, ...

Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in the first meeting of a new ...

In the chaos of a major disaster, FEMA can greenlight hundreds of payments and spend billions of dollars in just days. During Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the agency obligated roughly $7 billion ...

Senator Welch says his bill is focused on empowering local communities specifically on when aid is available, who makes ...

Missouri state Reps. Marty Joe Murray and Colin Wellenkamp talked about their participation in the Future Caucus on the latest episode of the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air.

FEMA’s federal assistance supplements California’s own disaster response and mitigation resources like those allocated to the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, which was allotted $4.4 ...

President Donald Trump and Noem have vowed to phase out FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season, which ends on November 30, and plan to shift the burden of disaster relief to the states.

One FEMA official directly involved in disaster response called the policy “a dramatic and unprecedented overreach” and contends that Noem “is effectively preventing the department from ...