The Federal Emergency Management Agency's acting chief plans to shift responsibility for disaster recovery to states during the upcoming hurricane season, he said during a staff town hall on ...

With the prevalence of remote work, IT leaders also need to plan for when disaster strikes employees outside the office. Despite high-profile return-to-office mandates from the likes of Amazon ...

A popular database that tracked the nation's growing number of billion-dollar disasters is going away, in another of the ongoing changes at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Federal scientists will no longer update a list of weather disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. The list had been ...

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making significant changes to how it will respond to disasters on the ground this season, including ending federal door-to-door canvassing of survivors ...

In the wake of recent natural disasters, state leaders across the country are finding that emergency support from the federal government is no longer a given. Under President Donald Trump ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied Washington’s request for a disaster declaration that would allow the state to seek federal recovery funds. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images) ...

With hurricane season approaching, the results could be catastrophic. “The federal disaster safety net is at risk of unraveling right now,” says Rob Moore, director of flooding solutions and ...

Weeks after tornadoes caused destruction and deaths in Arkansas, a rumor began to spread that U.S. President Donald Trump refused to release disaster relief funds for the state. For example ...

Texas, Georgia and Illinois are the three worst states for natural disasters. Hawaii, Alaska and Maine are the three states with the fewest natural disasters. Natural disaster frequency and ...

A disaster mitigation program designed to help communities prevent property damage or loss of life was abruptly canceled by FEMA. One of the projects lost was a storm drainage system that would ...