On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders ...

States must assess now whether they have the financial tools and governance structure to respond effectively if Federal ...

Every year, millions of Americans rely on FEMA assistance after hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and other disasters. The ...

John Dwyer coordinates emergency management in Champaign County, Illinois. He’s seeing a lot more weather extremes, from ...

EEMA staff have already begun meeting with various agencies, including municipalities across the county to gear up for the season ahead. Sandbags will be available and the county ...

Atlantic Hurricane season officially began this week and it comes at an uneasy time for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Last month, the head of FEMA was dismissed, and several senior ...

Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to ...

Sarah Russell, former commissioner of the City Emergency Management Agency for St. Louis, failed to sound the sirens for a tornado that killed 5 people last Friday, according to reports.

The Hawai‘i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) is facing citations from the Hawai'i Department of Health (DOH) for violating the state’s underground storage tank laws in 1997.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency faces a backlog of unprocessed emergency aid requests as hurricane season approaches — a sign of how the White House’s insistence that states shoulder ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis police have investigated a series of online death threats against the head of the City Emergency Management Agency in the wake of the May 16 tornado.