The government's disaster relief agency sends out billions of dollars every year to help communities recover. They may soon ...

Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no federal agency prepared to quickly send ...

“States don’t have that capability built to handle a disaster every single year,” Lynn Budd, director of the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, told Stateline in an interview. Access to FEMA avoids ...

The Trump administration on Thursday said that 10,000 employees of the Health and Human Services Department would be ...

Executive director Stephen McCraney told WDAM crews are done surveying for individual assistance. They hope to have a request ...

Louisiana Governor declared a state of emergency for the Office of Motor Vehicles due to system failures caused by outdated 50-year-old databases.

The move comes after two years of audits that showed the agency hasn't complied with federal reporting requirements for disaster relief grants.

"I had a feeling they (the WHO) had to do that because they were not getting the anticipated member state reaction" from the PHEIC declaration weeks earlier, he explained. "It changed the ...

States can also enter into mutual agreements with other states regarding authorization for other national guard units to enter for purposes such as fighting wildfires or responding to a natural ...

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KwaZulu-Natal is grappling with the aftermath of catastrophic weather events from February 16 to 28, resulting in a national state of disaster declaration by the National Disaster Management ...

(The Center Square) — Shreveport's Highland Center is now better equipped to help the city in times of disaster ... Square covering the Northwestern Louisiana region. She holds her M.A. in ...