A 2023 Government Accountability Office report indicated that FEMA only had 5,000 full-time staff members, as well as a group of reservists and emergency-response workers who could be called up to ...

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

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must now cross her desk for approval, according ...

Even though there are still dozens of people missing, and endless mounds of mangled vegetation and vehicles, it is not too ...

Prior to leading the federal emergency response, Fugate was the emergency director in Florida. " Congress never intended for FEMA to supplant insurance," he said. Speed and accountability ...

The Government Accountability Office said staffing levels and other workforce issues at the Federal Emergency Management Agency “has limited its capacity to provide effective disaster assistance.” ...

FEMA said it is encouraging survivors to be aware of fraud and con artists who commonly take advantage of disasters.

FEMA said it's "ready to support" Florida as a hurricane approaches the state, which is still reeling from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene.

Is the response to Hurricane Helene going poorly? What is FEMA actually supposed to do? A disaster response expert weighs in.

The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail what it did to prepare for Hurricane Helene after it became clear there would be ...