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FEMA has enough funding for Hurricane Milton. What’s next is less certain. Story by Jacob Bogage, Maxine Joselow • 1mo. Federal relief agencies are confronting a potential budget shortfall as ...
Residents in Forest Hills weren’t expecting to flood last year, but are still recovering after city infrastructure failed.
Kevin Guthrie, the head of Florida’s emergency management department, rattled off the state’s bragging rights: debris is picked up 24/7 after a storm, power is restored within 120 hours, roads are ...
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...
City leaders in Lake Helen are meeting Thursday night to confront a growing financial burden, nearly $2 million in storm ...
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's new rules for FEMA delayed the deployment of aid in response to Texas floods, according to a CNN ...
The sweeping budget bill is facing backlash over deep cuts to programs like Medicaid, food assistance, and now FEMA, which ...
May, FEMA had 1,952 trained staffers ready to deploy to disasters; a year earlier, it had 6,588. Meanwhile, NOAA has lost about 20% of staff, including hundreds of National Weather Service employees.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every ...
The Town of Fort Myers Beach announced the promotion of Dr. Traci Kohler to the position of Deputy Town Manager. Dr. Kohler ...
President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane season is likely to put more responsibilities on states to provide services ...
President Trump is flaunting his bond with deep-red Texas ahead of a Friday trip to the state, where he will assess deadly flooding that took the lives of more than 120 people. Gov. Greg Abbott ...