Gov. Tony Evers' administration is assessing if the flooding in southeast has caused enough damages to qualify for federal ...

Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...

With record-breaking wildfires, floods and storms battering communities nationwide — and President Donald Trump pushing to ...

After severe floods hit Milwaukee County over the weekend, local officials declared a state of emergency. Why hasn't the state done the same?

Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it ...

A federal judge issued a temporary order on Tuesday stopping the Trump administration from redirecting $4.5 billion in funds ...

With hurricane season still going strong, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says its disaster fund has run out of money. Traditionally, hurricane season runs from June 1 to November ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion in grant funding for communities and first ...

In July 2024, Dillon Taylor and I published the article: The Rise of the Disaster Diplomat: A New Era for Domestic Crisis Leadership, asserting that the nation’s emergency managers possess a similar ...

In this season of seemingly constant disaster that we find ourselves within, there is a growing chorus of people calling for the dismantling of FEMA and calling for the placement of blame for response ...

The Robert T. Stafford Emergency Relief and Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 gave the President the authority to issue disaster declarations for a variety of events. These can range from widespread ...

States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...