As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...

Records obtained by The New York Times show that FEMA laid off contractors the night of July 5, when flood waters were ...

Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in the first meeting of a new ...

FEMA is not shutting down but ‘rebranding’ to highlight local leaders’ roles in disaster response - In January, Trump floated the idea of minimizing FEMA if not getting rid of it as a whole – a positi ...

A New York Times report found thousands of calls to FEMA went unanswered after the Department of Homeland Security laid off ...

The president quickly committed vital funding for Republican-led Texas after last week's deadly flooding. But Democratic-led ...

FEMA was activated after Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, where 59 people were killed by flash ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017 was “hindered” by the agency’s IT resources, which led to employees having to use personal ...

While FEMA in the past could divert resources for different disaster “seasons” like wildfires and hurricanes, natural disasters happen more concurrently now, straining the response when ...

Former FEMA administrator Craig Fugate joins John Yang to discuss the future of disaster management. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has responded to a record number of billion-dollar ...

FEMA pools national resources to help states quickly manage disasters. Without that federal support, each state would be left to build its own expensive response capabilities.