Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico 5 years ago. Recovery in many ways had just begun. FEMA’s chief, Deanne Criswell, traveled to the big island on Tuesday to assess the impact, and she said the ...

as Puerto Rico struggled to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, $10 million was diverted from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pay to put children in the cages of detention ...

Exactly five years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing at least ... of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, says the agency is much better situated ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded large contracts to several inexperienced companies after Hurricane Maria’s devastating strike on Puerto Rico, some of which had never conducted ...

Three people were arrested in connection with a misused $1.8 billion contract. A former top Federal Emergency Management Agency official tasked with restoring power to a devastated Puerto Rico ...

On September 18, Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico almost five ... the situation is even worse. FEMA has a $13.2 billion budget for utility projects post-Maria. Five years into the ...

A day before the five-year anniversary of Hurricane ... were approved under emergency appropriations after Hurricane Maria. "The funds that we have were appropriated for Puerto Rico to improve ...

meant for victims of Hurricane Maria, have been sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, since last year, according to @FEMA, which confirmed the news to me, late tonight, after pictures ...

Ever since Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, leading to underreported death counts, months without power and billions of dollars in damages, the 3.2 million ...

When powerful storms hit your city, which neighborhoods are most likely to flood? In many cities, they're typically ...

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Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria -- nearly seven years after the powerful Category 4 storm caused extensive damage to the island's already delicate infrastructure. September ...